Dual monitor possible?

[Ashley Benton]

Sorry, didn't have to come back to my computer before. Thank you for the
explanation, I now understand what you were speaking about. As for the slots
there is only one pink, the others are silver but for the usb (not sure of
the name neither but can't remember it right now) that will lead to the
printer, scanner...
After you have the sound card and the video card that I added that's all I
see inside in the back of the computer.
Right now I just moved my son's computer like that I can use his screen to
show me what I need, but it apparently has some trojans and other troubles
so I may have to change the hard drive and install Ubuntu if I can't solve
all the problems that it is making. It decided to make appear whatever it
wants whenever it wants, hard to read a screen this way!
Anyway thank you for your help, I'll tell you when I will be able to buy the
card and let you know if I am able to install it by myself
Thank you
Megan

On 10/6/07, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 06/10/2007, Ashley Benton <meggalen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would say the slot is long and pink, so apparently the manufacturer
> > changed the color for fun. The computer is about from 2003 so I wouldn't
> say
> > ISA and my BIOS settings were on PCI before I changed them to AGP so I
> would
> > guess it is a PCI (never went in the BIOS settings before I installed
> Ubuntu
> > about 2 months ago). I also went to check in the BIOS and the settings
> of
> > the nvidia card last night but didn't see anything that would help.
> Maybe it
> > is there but I don't see it, so I will try again tonight or tomorrow
>
> Well, we know you can switch your  BIOS between onboard and PCI/AGP,
> yes? Does the machine have multiple slots? If so, then chances are,
> it's AGP+PCI. If most of the slots are white and one isn't, that'll be
> the AGP one.
>
> > As from the Matrox Parphelia driver I'm missing something and don't
> > understand.
>
> I was answering a question from someone else, who wanted /triple/ head.
>
> > Yet I I saw the option of the Nvidia 6800 GT with dual output
> > maybe interesting for later.
>
> Yes indeed!
>
> > I also have a stupid question from what I read
> > you usually don't like ATI and prefer Nvidia because of the driver
> problems
> > if I understood and I saw some reference for ATI card, why? Isn't it
> easier
> > to use Nvidia and don't they have equivalent product?
>
> As far as I know, nVidia do not offer any plain-old PCI graphics cards
> any more. They stopped many many years ago. But ATI /do./ The Radeon
> 9200 and 7000 were available in PCI form many years after almost
> everyone else gave up. So if someone wants /three/ screens on a
> pre-PCIe computer, the options are:
> [1] Matrox Parhelia - not good with Linux
> [2] AGP 2-head card + PCI card
>
> If you're going for option 2, then it's probably easier to have all
> the cards from the same manufacturer, so they work with the same
> driver. Since the only remotely recent PCI graphics cards are ATI,
> then that means ATI main AGP graphics, too.
>
> Otherwise, yes, I normally do recommend nVidia nowadays.
>
> This may change soon. nVidia's Linux drivers are their own, closed,
> proprietary code. This is a Bad Thing in Linux terms, but it was the
> only choice.
>
> But ATI - now owned by Intel rival processor company AMD - recently
> released all the info for their rival cards. (AMD are getting badly
> beaten up by Intel in processors and badly beaten up by nVidia in
> graphics. They are flailing around for competitive advantage. This
> could be a shrewd move.)
>
> So, soon, there will be open, Free ATI drivers that can do all the
> cool stuff nVidia's closed, proprietary ones can. When that happens,
> suddenly, for Linux, everyone will start recommending and using ATI
> graphics instead.
>
> This is not a big market for graphics - at least, not yet - but on the
> other hands, the   sort of people running Linux are knowledgeable
> geeks, the sorts who end up running big technology companies or
> running technology for big companies.
>
> So long-term, getting these guys to know and love your product and
> rate it over the competition is a Good Thing.
>
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