Re: [offtopic] dual vga?

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Tue, 7 Jul 1998 18:35:13 +0200


> 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).

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
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