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  1. dual PCI SGI flat panel displays by vipw · · Score: 3 · on Dual-Headed DVI Flatpanels?
    you might want to look in to the SGI flat panel displays, http://www.sgi.com/flatpanel/

    You can buy them in a package with a PCI Number 9 revolution IV and the whole kit can be found for less than $1400(US).

    Almost all computer have a couple PCI ports open, and unless you're doing fast texture writes it's really not much slower than AGP.

    We're really thinking about rolling these out as the standard dual-head setup at my workplace to cut down on eye strain and electricity costs.

  2. SGI 1600SW or Radius Artica by jo42 · · Score: 1 · on Super Large, Super Hi-Res LCD Screens?

    Troll eBay looking for either an SGI 1600SW or a Radius Artica ($1500-$1900) - both are the same device: 1600x1024 resolution, wide screen, awesome image quality, uber geek. Only two cards that I know of drive it directly; the now defunct Number Nine Revolution IV or the current 3Dlabs Oxygen VX1-1600. Looks like Xi Graphics have decent X support for both. Otherwise you can get the SGI multi-link adapter ($495) that will take analog DB-15 or DVP/DVI digital inputs and drive it that way. Though, whatever you do, get 100% digital from video card to display. DVI is the current standard in the PeeCee world with support from Matrox, nVidia, ATI on the video card side and more flat panels are coming out that have a DVI-D connector (i.e. Philips 150P) - see Tom's Hardware for a good write up.

  3. Re:Why they went under: by GalenBB · · Score: 1 · on Goodbye, Number Nine
    Search for: Linux

    Sorry, but search returned no results.

    Try http://www.nine.com/support/docs/linux.html

  4. Re:a 3d card? by Jose · · Score: 1 · on Goodbye, Number Nine

    yup. The Revolution IV, and the SR9 they sound half decent.
    As everyone knows their 2D cards really kicked ass, I'm sure their 3D ones were just as good.

  5. The Number 9 Revolution IV *is* supported in XFree by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 2 · on XIG Releases Commercial OpenGL X-Server
    The Rev. IV is already supported in Xfree. See Number Nine's support page and the the XFree86 3.3.5 release notes.

    Too bad 9 is bankrupt. The i128 series was and is a great card.

    -jwb

  6. Re:What about wide monitors? by Guy+Harris · · Score: 2 · on Widescreen TVs in the US?
    You can get wide-format monitors from SGI as part of the Octane package, I believe.

    You can get wide-format monitors with the SGI name on them from a variety of places; Number Nine sells (at least in the US; their online store only sells in the US) the Digital Flat Panel Solution Pack for PC's (and I think they had a package for Macs as well), which includes a Revolution IV-FP video card and the SGI monitor. It's probably available from various distributors as well. It comes with drivers for operating systems from Redmond; Accelerated-X also includes drivers, as does, I think, the latest XFree86. (I see nothing in the graphics card section of the BeOS Ready List for Intel about it, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear that there's no OS/2 drivers for it, either, alas, as, when I get a second disk for my home machine, I'd be tempted to install those on it as well, just to see what they're like....)

    They are really nice, but heavy as hell,

    The ones you installed are presumably CRTs; this one is an LCD, and thus presumably not so heavy (or bulky)...

    We set them up to run 1600x1024 at 75Hz.

    ...and give you 1600x1024 as well.

    The price on Number Nine's online store is about USD 2800, but I got mine for about USD 2200, at least several months ago - I seem to remember the list price being less than USD 2800 when I bought it, so maybe it's gone up; I don't know what the price would be outside the US.