Re: [offtopic] dual vga?

Dustin Marquess (linker@nightshade.ml.org)
Tue, 7 Jul 1998 16:07:51 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Martin Mares wrote:

> > This may or may not be a kernel issue, but is there a way to have a
> > dual-head machine with two vga cards in it? (as opposed to vga+mda)
>
> With ISA cards it's impossible since the I/O and memory addresses
> conflict with each other. With several PCI cards it's possible, but
> I know no drivers supporting it (AFAIK, different cards do configuration
> of addresses in different ways).
>

Just upgrade to Windows 98! It had dual-head support and FAT32 so you can
have drives bigger then two gigs! Also, it has improved networking so your
computer doesn't mysteriously hard lock when you go and piss people off in
#linux!

/me ducks! :) :) :)

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Gregory Maxwell

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