I think their consumer cards and quadros are limited to 2 displays. And the nvs line is built for 4. Now depending on what your system has available you could go with 3 cheaper desktop cards and run them that way. Makes me wonder if Matrox is still around doing their thing or not. On Jun 13, 2015 11:43 PM, "Michael Butash" wrote: > Interesting note (imho), I went digging around nvidia's site today, > trying to familiarize myself with their line of overpriced video cards aka > quadro's. What I found was most of their website doesn't render or work > properly, half the links were broken, half their pdf's didn't download, and > in general looks like something a 10 year old put together (or me, meh for > aesthetics). Wow, you'd think they could afford some competent web > developers at least. > > Sadly seems every card that can do "mosaic" mode, including sli to achieve > nvidia's qualifications to support sli were $500+ used on ebay, needing > multiple cards of them, in the kepler (K) line of cards or better to > achieve. I guess it's one of those ymmv/"get what you pay for" sort of > things to support what I don't necessarily expect should cost me $1000+ to > support my 6 displays, and really not sure even that is any better/worse > than AMD's support until I see it. > > Seeing as no one at AMD gives a real darn about real linux support (hark! > yet another COD windoze game came out with broken dx rendering, support!), > it might be worth the price, but the childish/broken website from nvidia > makes me loathe to want to invest there either, figuring I'll see the same > brokenness I see with amd. > > -mb > > > On 06/12/2015 06:45 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > > I need to install and check. > On Jun 12, 2015 4:20 PM, "Michael Butash" wrote: > >> Stephen, out of curiosity, what does your xrandr show as a max >> framebuffer size on your quadro? >> >> mb@host:~$ xrandr | grep maximum >> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 11520 x 1200, maximum 16384 x 16384 >> >> This was a big limiter for me, in the past I couldn't figure out why my >> old ATI 5800 card with 6 ports wouldn't support a full, single framebuffer, >> but was internally limited to 8192x8192, with the 6xxx+ supporting >> 16384x16384. Xorg wasn't too forthcoming with that info, and it was prior >> to xrandr support in their drivers, so totally left me scratching my head >> until escalating with AMD support to an engineer with a clue that told me >> that. >> >> With the advent of 4k displays, they still seem limited to that, which >> means I can only do 4x wide until vendors give to open that up. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -mb >> >> >> On 06/12/2015 03:55 PM, Michael Butash wrote: >> >> Next time I have an absolute need to upgrade hardware, I plan on avoiding >> ati/amd at all costs. After dealing with them for a good 5 years as the >> only real viable option to run my displays, only to be wrought with >> constant disappointment, problems, and frustration. Buying highly >> overpriced quadro cards might be money well spent at this point, but I >> still despise nvidia that they're really little other than rebranded, and >> marked-up normal video cards with driver-locked (to bios-id) features. >> >> That said, going to set up some ebay agents to look for decent quadro's >> to snipe. I had good luck getting my last few amd cards that way on the >> cheap, gotta love jbidwatcher for cheating some other person with a >> last-second bid. >> >> Thanks as always for the input Stephen. >> >> -mb >> >> >> On 06/12/2015 03:20 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: >> >> I have almost given up on ATI, if i want just multiple screens i would >> look into the Quadro NVS cards. Such as the NVS 510 or the K1200. They may >> be very proprietary to get running, but my success with Nvidia cards in >> both linux and windows really makes it worthwhile. These cards will only do >> a single monitor, but they are cheap enough to run 2 cards with reasonable >> usability. or one NVS and one more Gamer friendly card. >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >