[NTLUG:Discuss] DualHead and XFree86

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I will mention once again, you can purchase a DVI to VGA 
converter.  All of the old ATI Radeon Cards for AGP used 
to ship with them, as they did not have a VGA connector 
onboard at all, just DVI.

> 
> 
> Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> > Thanks....
> > are you 100% sure about:
> > 
> >>Dualhead support works quite well with the GeForce - but
> >>you need to have one analog monitor and one DVI monitor
> >>(eg an LCD flat panel).
> > 
> > 
> > I thought that I read that you could have two 'vga' type monitors
> > with these cards. If it's really one DVI and one VGA, that's 
> > a show stopper for me. I want to use two existing 19"+ monitors
> > that I already have. 
> 
> Well, unless you've found a version of the card with two analog
> connectors - no.   The standard cards have one conventional
> D-type connector for VGA-style video and one 26 pin DVI connector.
> 
> It may be that one of the card manufacturers makes one with two
> analog connectors instead (it would only be a matter of duplicating
> the analog circuitry) - and there is certainly at least one board
> that supports two DVI ports.
> 
> > Someone else pointed out that I might just want to use a single
> > monitor setup and a X-Term type device for the second monitor. 
> 
> You might as well run two complete PC's and just network them.
> 
> In hardware terms, there is no difference between an X-term and
> a full-up PC...but if you *use* it as an X-term, you get much
> slower graphics and the 'main' PC ends up doing twice as much
> work.
> 
> > I am going to look at that first before I go and buy a new video 
> > card. I have a Ultra5 that I could use as the X-Terminal to get 
> > the second Linux session up and running. I think I'll play with 
> > that first. 
> 
> Yep.
> 
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