[Sussex] Multiple screens using USB to VGA converters

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Tue Mar 11 08:49:11 UTC 2008


Morning James

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 08:45 +0000, James Pybus wrote:
> I have had a similar experience with on board and the agp slot as it
> seems the agp part is shared so its one or the other that will work,
> but in these cases you can usually use an old pci graphics card instead
> of an agp one and it will work fine. Obviously they are not as good so
> it depends on what the usage is, if its just coding etc you should be ok.

Good point.  I had assumed that the second VGA controller was a PCI card
because that is what I use.  I've done most of my duel-headed playing on
workstations which don't have on-board VGA and therefore I had to have a
PCI based second VGA controller.

Steve
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