adam on Wed, 13 Oct 1999 19:50:45 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] Two video cards


yeah, I was going to actually do that with my palm pilot.
however. I do have this extra video card and nice trinitron monitor.
I can't believe there is no way to use that.


Tracy Nelson wrote:

> adam wrote:
> > so, I have heard that XFree86 v4 will support multiple video cards.
> > What I'd like to do though, is just get a console going
> > on one of my cards, so I could have
> > X on one monitor, and the console on the other.
> > does anyone have an idea of how this could be done?
>
> You might want to scrounge up an old dumb terminal and hang that off of
> a serial port.  Someone has promised me an old ADM-3A, and that's what I
> intend to do with it.  Not sure how easy it would be to find one, though
> -- maybe try that outfit in K of P that refurbishes old PCs for charity,
> they might get the odd bit of hardware, and I'm sure they'd be happy to
> turn it over for a small donation.
>
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