Dual monitor possible?

[Ashley Benton]

I'm sorry if I didn't specify that I had an integrated graphic card but I
didn't know it before somebody asked me. Yes I know I'm messing up with
things I don't understand but at least now I understand a lot better. Your
post have been very helpful and I thank everybody for that. The result from
lspci is:

meg at meg-desktop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?)
(rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller
(rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE
1394) Controller (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev a2)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500]
(rev a1)
02:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
02:08.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem (rev 02)
meg at meg-desktop:~$

And for the question PCI or AGP I don't know. I went in the Bios and changed
from PCI to AGP/onboard.  The screen is still working so I really don't
know, and don't know where to look.

If there is anything else I can try let me know,

Thank you

Megan

On 10/5/07, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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