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I've got two monitors running independently on two different video cards. I notice things choppy and all around sluggish. Also I can't seem to get wallpaper to display properly on them. I know my monitors are capable of higher resolution than they are at. But I don't think my drivers are up to date.
Distribution: openSuSE, Fedora, CentOS, Debian,, and others
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Well the first gpu listed is the built-in motherboard gpu,and the second one listed is an older card that I am pretty sure had some issues similar to the 5200 series of cards.
It is also an unfortunate truth that the addon card you are using is some what out-of-date.
Now the nVidia 6150 chipset should be a pretty reliable chipset and should do fine for non-gaming use. Now the 6200 pci card that you have installed might be what is causing the most issue. I know on some of my older Gigabyte Mobos I could not run dual display properly with the 6150 chipset. I also noticed that your Mobo is the MCP61 series from MSI(If I remember right).
Dont get me wrong its a good Mobo and can be considered reliable... I still have one running on my network, but your best bet is to go with either a video card that supports Dual Monitors or to go with dual video cards that support dual monitors giving you the ability to expand to a Quad Display rig....
And have you installed the latest drivers from nVidia??
Last edited by War3zWad|0; 12-17-2011 at 03:57 AM.
Reason: revision - update
Well the first gpu listed is the built-in motherboard gpu,and the second one listed is an older card that I am pretty sure had some issues similar to the 5200 series of cards.
It is also an unfortunate truth that the addon card you are using is some what out-of-date.
Now the nVidia 6150 chipset should be a pretty reliable chipset and should do fine for non-gaming use. Now the 6200 pci card that you have installed might be what is causing the most issue. I know on some of my older Gigabyte Mobos I could not run dual display properly with the 6150 chipset. I also noticed that your Mobo is the MCP61 series from MSI(If I remember right).
Dont get me wrong its a good Mobo and can be considered reliable... I still have one running on my network, but your best bet is to go with either a video card that supports Dual Monitors or to go with dual video cards that support dual monitors giving you the ability to expand to a Quad Display rig....
And have you installed the latest drivers from nVidia??
I got them from jockey-gtk but when I run that only one driver is listed as Activated and Currently in use.
Since i'm using two different cards, shouldn't there be two showing as active and in use? Would you recommend I download them from the nvidia website?
Distribution: openSuSE, Fedora, CentOS, Debian,, and others
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Well the first issue that you are going to have is that the 6150 chipset does not work well with PCIe video cards. You will need to upgrade the addon card to be able to do what you want. The Geforce 6 Series did not work well with Dual Monitors.
The 6 series video cards are also "Out-of-date" as they will only support up to directX 9. You will need to get at least a Geforce 9 series or better to accomplish what you are wanting to do. Sorry to deliver bad news, but again you will either need a video card that supports dual monitors or go with 2 cards that both support dual monitors.
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