[ale] 2 video cards co-existing?

Ryan Bridges ryan at linuxgeneralstore.com
Sat Jul 10 13:24:12 EDT 1999


I believe that Xfree86 4.0 is supposed to have support for this.  As of
now, I don't think it is possible to have multi-head support.  Likewise, i
think the BIOS will either A.  not boot, or B.  disable one video card on
boot-up.

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On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Nomad the Wanderer wrote:

> 
> Got an odd one.  I have 2 video cards, one I want to use in Linux, one
> in Winblowz.  Is it possible to have them co-exist in the machine at the
> same time so I can just unplug the monitor and re-plug it?
> 
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