Chris Fisichella composed on 2015-03-06 18:39 (UTC): > Thank you for reading my posts and providing some useful advice. I did > not realize there was a line drawn between onboard video and a > separate card. On that same machine, I have Windows XP, and it handled > the second display fine, so I thought I could also do it with Linux.
> I have a PCI Matrox video card and a PCI ATI card. If I fill both PCI > slots with them, do you think I could get two displays that way? I > would just not use the onboard video connector. I would expect so. Lots of people use more than two displays. I don't know that any single addin cards exist with more than two ports where one is not composite or SVHS, so most must be using more than one addin card. I wouldn't expect all using more than two to be using motherboards with more than one PCIe slot designed for video cards. Do note that ATI is supported by KMS drivers (as are Intel and NVidia), while MGA is not. Combining ATI with MGA could produce a compounding problem. Also, there might be some BIOS setting you can change to enable simultanous use of your onboard video with an addin card. Check your motherboard specifications to find out. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
