Dual monitor possible?

[Brian McKee]

On 05/10/2007, SteVe Cook <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Just out of curiosity - actually PCI cards?  or AGP?
IIUC modern onboard video is AGP and you can only have on AGP device
on a system.   If your cards are PCI then that would make sense....

Brian