> There are a few web pages and/or FAQs that cover this. Basically, VGA
> cards all respond to the same I/O addresses. If you happen to have
> a bucketload of old ISA SVGA cards, it is possible to physically modify
> the card so that it responds to a different I/O address and maps the
> video RAM to a different location.
>
> PCI cards don't have this limitation, so it is relatively easy
> (compared to getting out the soldering iron) to go dual-headed. If
> I remember correctly, XFree doesn't (yet) support dual monitors, but
> one of the commercial ones does.
Actually what I was thinking (since the second monitar+card are from the eighties) is to run X on my normal (ATI Mach64 PCI) card+monitor and have some kind of text console/syslog/whatever on the other monitor.
Doesn't VGA map text-mode memory and graphics-mode memory differently? Might it not be possible that way?
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