From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 23 08:04:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA04388 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 08:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.PII.COM (pii.com [192.77.209.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA04383 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 08:04:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PII.COM by PII.COM (4.1/SMI-4.4) id AA19581; Wed, 23 Apr 97 08:06:54 PDT Received: from PII-Message_Server by pii.com with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 08:05:15 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 08:03:06 -0700 From: Robert Clark To: questions@freebsd.org, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: Misc. Hardware questions -Reply Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 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