Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 4 Jan 1997 12:32:38 +0200 (EET) | From | Tuomas Heino <> | Subject | Re: Video card questions... |
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On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, David S. Miller wrote:
> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 12:50:32 -0800 (PST) > From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> > > > First: Why would you WANT more than 1 video card? no real need. > > Upcoming versions of Microsoft Windows will likely support this. > If Linux does not, it will slip farther from acceptance as a > desktop OS in the cubicle zone. > > Linux already supports it, on the Sparc at least. The Intel doesn't > support multiple heads yet? Come on guys, I'm the young port, you > need to do some catching up ;-) > If you mean sparc supports it (kernel, not just X;) then i386 should really catch up ;) ... but as you start using multiple displays you'll prolly want multiple keyboards and/or mice soon... multiple keyboards might be hard as I haven't heard of hardware support for that yet... multiple mice shouldn't be that hard ;) Anyway using multiple monitors && multiple VCs && multiple keyboards && multiple mice with single machine would rock ;)
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