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2 video cards 1 monitor?



Yes you read hte subject line correctly I want to have two video cards in one
machine and 1 monitor.  Is this possible?

Here's my reasoning.  I have a nice AGP video card that for my box and I want
to continue to use it for my display.  Someone gave me a PCI TV tuner card
that I'd also like to use.  Trouble is it only has 2MB video RAM, so I don't
want to use it as my primary display.  I also don't have a second decent
monitor so I figured since I can export displays in XFree86 and all, how about
putting both cards in, running an X display on each, then exporting the window
of the TV turner program to my main display, on the nice AGP card, and I can
have the best of both worlds.  Will this work?  I haven't tried it, but I'd
like some data on this before I take down my machine for it.  URLs are good as
well, I haven't done much of a search on this yet.

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Jon Schewe | http://eggplant.mtu.net/~jpschewe
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels 
nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any 
powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all 
creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that 
is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39