Multiple monitors
  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    MarK
    Posts: 641 from 2004/1/25
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    Hi all!

    Has anyone here experience with multiple monitor usage? I often play movies on my big monitor, but I would love to continue working on ambient on another monitor, is this possible with a second gfx card?
  • »02.02.04 - 14:42
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    Miky060
    Posts: 694 from 2003/2/24
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    You need 2 GFX boards. The only 2 working solution are:

    1- Voodoo AGP + Voodoo PCI (but different models eg.voodoo3 + voodoo4/5)

    2- Voodoo AGP + Radeon PCI

    No other solutions will work.

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  • »02.02.04 - 14:55
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    bigfoot
    Posts: 510 from 2003/4/11
    That's not entirely true.

    Any amount of graphics cards will do, but with the following limitations:

    1) If you include a Radeon in your setup, it must be the one which is initialized by OF. PCI is initialized first, so if your other card is AGP, the Radeon must be PCI.

    2) Several cards of the same type won't work. At least with some drivers, not sure for all of them. 2 Voodoo 3s won't work for sure.
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  • »02.02.04 - 15:38
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    Miky060
    Posts: 694 from 2003/2/24
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    He asked how to get 2 monitors system so my answer was correct. Of course you can had also a third GFX board and a 4th.. :-)
    To combos I proposed we could only add a third and last combinaton: 2 PCI Voodoo cards, but I did not suggest this before because it would be the most expensive and less pratical (you loose 2 precious PCI slots in one shot! :-)) solution.

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  • »02.02.04 - 16:09
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    Golem
    Posts: 766 from 2003/2/28
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    So SiS and Permedia cards wont work?
  • »02.02.04 - 16:13
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    Miky060
    Posts: 694 from 2003/2/24
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    Yes, I totally forgot about existence of these cards...
    Never seen one here

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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Posts: 641 from 2004/1/25
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    Hmm, but when I will have two working gfx cards,
    like Voodoo3-3000 AGP and a Radeon PCI, is it possible to use two monitors at the same time, I
    mean to watch a movie on first and to work in
    Ambient with second.

    I believe, this is possible...
  • »03.02.04 - 09:30
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