Ok, weird might have been the wrong word ;-). But allow me to call your installation "not the normal, average desktop scenario". I've been in this strage IT business for over 20 years now and to be honest: your the first one I've heard of who actually did that - on purpose. Great!
Am Montag, den 17.01.2005, 10:58 -0500 schrieb James Hiscock: > > And you normally can't have two graphic cards in one box. There might be > > some weird way though to have both an AGP card and a PCI one installed > > but I wouldn't bet on that. > > This is horribly inaccurate: I currently have 4 in my desktop at home. > One built-in video card on the motherboard (AGP, disabled); an ATI > AIW-Radeon 9200 64MB AGP (that I haven't bothered trying to get > working in Linux); a Nvidia GeForce MX 440 64MB PCI; and an Nvidia > GeForce FX5200 128MB PCI. > > ...and I have all three of them (the ATI card and both Nvidia cards) > enabled & working in both Windows and Linux. It's not weird at all... > unless you find it weird having 3x 17" LCDs hooked up to a single > machine, with a desktop spanning all three monitors...? > > (greedy, yes; silly, yes; but - even if I do say so myself - it _does_ > look cool. ;) > > ... but now I'm straying horribly off-topic ... > > >And if it's not a silly question (Which bet it is) is it > > possible to have two graphic cards > > installed... One for XP the other for Gentoo? > > Definitely not a silly question. The answer is simply yes. You can > even use both of them in both operating systems if you want. > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Mit freundlichen Gr��en Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europespox -- [email protected] mailing list
