Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 08:03:06 -0700 From: Robert Clark <ROBERTC@PII.COM> To: questions@freebsd.org, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: Misc. Hardware questions -Reply Message-ID: <s35dc2bb.026@pii.com>
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Pedro, Weird 3D cards, overlay cards, and TV tuner cards often use the VGA feature connector to do just this sort of thing. I've not seen any 'standard' VGA cards that will do this though. In other words, you could watch TV, do text overlay, or play SNES games, but not X-windows. *BUT* I seem to remember something about X being able to run on a secondary video card. You'd need a switch, or manually move the video cable. (unless you have a monitor to spare.) [RC] >>> Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> 04/22/97 04:15pm >>> On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > If I wanted a "real" card, I'd be using a different (non-ISA) computer > :-). Can two graphic cards be used at the same time and with the same > monitor? Eh? I haven't ever seen a display y-cable, so I think no. The question is which display card will the system use if there are two? Usually systems with onboard display cards have a way of disabling them if you don't want it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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