Re: [offtopic] dual vga?

David Lang (dlang@diginsite.com)
Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:25:11 -0700 (PDT)


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the metro-X server can do it (at least with some cards), one guy in the office
has two 17" monitors setup on his desk with this and you should see the looks he
gets from the windows people as they walk by (he is also the most productive
programmer we have and the only one with linux on his desktop....related facts?
you decide)

David Lang

On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 linker@nightshade.ml.org wrote:

> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 16:07:51 -0400 (EDT)
> From: linker@nightshade.ml.org
> To: Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
> Cc: Jakob Borg <jb@k2.lund.se>,
> linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
> Subject: Re: [offtopic] dual vga?
>
> 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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