On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:29 AM, harv <42dch42 at gmail.com> wrote: > So as not to waste people's time will get right to it. > First some specs > > Graphics card: > Gygabyte GV-N460SO-1GI > 2 x dvi + 1 x mini-hdmi out for future reference, the manufacturer of the card is not as important as the the chipset. generally speaking there are only two names in town for advanced graphics, ATI and NVIDIA. in this case you have an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 > System: > home-built frankenbox running Arch > Linux dita 3.6.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Nov 18 10:11:22 CET 2012 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Currently have dual monitor setup using dvi ports. > Wish to also output video- movies mainly- to tv using mini-hdmi port. > > A) Is this possible with this card? > Can all 3 ports be used simultaneously? no according to specifications that card has "Two pipelines for dual independent display" http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-480/specifications http://www.geforce.com/Active/en_US/en_US/pdf/GTX-480-470-Web-Datasheet.pdf only the latest generation of nvidia cards(excluding NVS range) has more than two pipelines.