[PLUG] Dual-headed system

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Mon Oct 28 22:48:05 UTC 2002


> > I've not yet had the pleasure of building a dual-headed system
> > so this is a newbie question.
> > 
> > Suppose I put a MDA (monochrome display adapter) and VGA card
> > in the same computer (a PC) and connect a monochrome monitor to
> > the MDA card and a color monitor to the VGA card. I then run a
> > single X server that uses the VGA card and color monitor. I want
> > the monochrome monitor to display my virtual consoles - using
> > no X server, of course.
> > 
> > Is this possible?
> 
> Probably not, it looks like the dual-heads need to be on the PCI bus
> (AGP is on the PCI bus).  Both video cards will also need to support
> running multiple cards.  It would take a very special monochrome card to
> fit this bill.
> 
> Anyway, the dual-head only works under X, so there is no way you will
> get a console to display on one card, and X on the other card.
>  

Based on this message from the lkml, it sounds like what Ed wants to do
is possible.

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0202.1/0493.html

galen







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