[Sussex] Multiple screens using USB to VGA converters

Brendan Whelan b_whelan at mistral.co.uk
Tue Mar 11 20:16:39 UTC 2008


Thanks James and Steve, I will plug a graphics card in a server and see 
what happens.  Brendan

Steve Dobson wrote:
> 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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