This one time, at band camp, Kevin Saenz wrote: >I would like to configure my machine so that can have 2 monitors hanging >off one machine. >Am I correct in assuming that I would need to buy another video card >which will send signals to the second monitor? >Would I experience some issue with running pci and agp graphic together? >Ideally I would need to have identical graphic cards. Or are there cards >that have 2 monitor outputs?
Yes to all the above. I started multihead by using an old PCI card next to an AGP card and it worked well. The PCI card was of course incredible slow and thus doing anything on the second head was painful, but it worked. Since then I've gotten myself a Matrox G400Max card which has two video outs, and is supported well under Linux and XFree86 for both 3d acceleration and dualhead. At work I use a Matrox G450 in dualhead mode. The matrox drivers, however, do not support both hardware accelerated 3D and dualhead at the same time, I have a feeling that this is a restriction in the hardware. If you have two cards, then you will be able to do dualhead and hardware acceleration at the same time; but unless you have two AGP ports on your motherboard, you are going to find that one card is going to suck. Finding PCI graphics cards these days is going to be difficult too. Second hand stalls at computer markets will be the best bet; but quality and performance will certainly be out of the picture. I believe James Gregory is running a recent Nvidia card with dualhead at home, though I may be wrong. I am also lead to believe that these new fangled DVI video cards are capable of driving two VGA plugs off of one DVI port; which means on a dual DVI card you can run 4 monitors! I currently have nothing to back that up except for something I heard once, so I'd appreciate some more information about that. Dual head cards start at about $300 and can go up to the debts of small nations. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
