Dual monitor possible?
SteVe Cook
yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com
Fri Oct 5 20:57:31 UTC 2007
Liam Proven wrote:
>
> In my experience, on a lot of machines, if you have what are called
> "integrated graphics" - that means, the graphic chip is built into the
> motherboard, not on a separate card - then there is circuitry in the
> motherboard logic which will automatically disable the onboard
> graphics when you insert a graphics card.
>
> It sounds to me like that's what's happening here. On such machines it
> is, as far as I know, *impossible* to use the integrated graphics
> /and/ an additional graphics card simultaneously.
> Sorry about that. It's a pain, but alas, multiple monitor support is a
> fairly new thing on the PC - it's less than a decade old as a
> mass-market thing. Macs, of course, have been doing it for twenty
> years.
>
I have two machines that run dual-head with integrated video and a PCI
card so it can be done with some machines.
Steve
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