Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 02 Jan 1997 16:07:27 -0700 | From | Don Fisher <> | Subject | Re: Video card questions... |
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Rob Glover wrote: > > First: Why would you WANT more than 1 video card? no real need. > > Second: PCI is much faster than VLB. > > Third: No real advantage, just having another monitor hooked up, but you > shouldn't need it, linux has virtual consoles. > > Fourth: My suggestion is to use the PCI card and not do anything, you > can't merge the VRAM to 2 megs.... > > -Rob > > On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Charlie Ross wrote: > > > > > I have a q or 2 about video cards and linux... for instance.. what can do > > with 2 video cards? 3? > > > > Which is better pci or vlb bussing? > > > > Any advantage to more than one vcard? > > can I use the video memory for anything neat? > > > > The reason I ask is that I currently have a PCI bussed cirrus logic > > CL-GD5434 and I just got my hands on a Diamond "Speed Star Pro" (vlb) it > > appeard to be (to my untrained eye) a Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428 with a > > "SpeedStar Pro" bios. Havent put it in my machine yet... I also have a > > Paradise (ISA :P) Can I use all 3? 2? if so how... if not which one is > > best? > > > > Both the CL cards have a meg of vram... is there any cheezy way I can use > > both cards to gether to give me 2 meg? (wishfull thinking I know but I have > > seen some preety wacky things done with vram, including using it to up the > > available dos mem to 720k... ) > > > > My machine will take vlb, pci and isa... so thats not a worry. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > -Chuck > > > > s253343@gettysburg.edu > > (717)-337-8212 > > > > "God is real, unless declared integer." > > > > > > > > It might be more accurate for one to say that he/she, as an individual, has no need for more than one video card. I have situations, such as debugging encoder/decoders in compression algorithms, where I can use all the space I can get. If I run ddd twice, once to see what is generated and again to determine if the correct thing is decoded, I can eaisly fill two screens. And there are other ways to do this. But cards and monitors are cheap compared to salary. I have been trying to encourage the development of multi-head capability. It has been used on Macs for years.
I currently have two matrox millennium cards, (merry Christmas) that are supposed to be supported by MetroLinks Metro-X server. I will let you know how it works out.
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