Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:11:31 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Jon M. Taylor" <> | Subject | Re: CHALLENGE!!! =) |
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Tygrys wrote: > > > > This is a challenge for me ... and those who don't know how to > > > do it. =) How can I plug in a second SCREEN on a second VIDEO CARD in linux? > > > > > > I mean : I have a 15" SVGA Screen which I use in X-windows, and I would like > > > to plugin a 14" VGA Screen on a second video card.... > > > > > > Do you know that? > > > > Not possible. The ,,excelent'' pc architecture allows only one (S)VGA > > graphic card. However, you can plug in a VGA and a hercules :-) > > You can plug in two cards that support it. Matrox Millenium, > Mystique support it, as do most S3 cards I believe. I think even > a lowly Cirrus Logic supports it.
If you watch out for hardware bugs, most PCI cards can.
> The second and further cards do not act as VGA cards, but rather > remap all I/O and video mem.
The PCI bus detects the conflict and puts the card(s) to sleep. They can be woken up and remapped to a non-conflicting segment of PCI address space.
> It used to be so that 2 VGA cards wouldn't work in a system > together, but most common video cards work in a system now > together I believe, just not as VGA's.
They have to remap their registers (VGA and otherwise) into their PCI LAW.
Jon
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