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Re: [TCLUG:22469] 2 video cards 1 monitor?



you can get a cheap mechanical switch at compUSA or something.. that
should work.. shouldn't cost more than $40 or so.. cables and stuff

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On 10 Oct 2000, Jon Schewe wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Jon Schewe | http://eggplant.mtu.net/~jpschewe
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