Dual Display

[aox0m0xoa]

im having a bit of a problem here. i have 2 monitors that i intended to use for dual display extended desktop. i have a geforce2mx 400 and a really old s3 trio, both pci. when i startup my computer it disables the trio so that i only get a display on my geforce2. is there some way to allow 2 pci cards to work simaltaneously? ive dont it with a pci card and onboard video, but i cant get this working. any help is appreciated.

[Nyarlathotep]

I have serious doubts you'll get the above setup running. I have to admit though, I never tried it.

[aox0m0xoa]

i know its possible, theres no other way to have a 9 monitor display, like windows supports

[number6]

Windows may support it, but you need the right hardware. I think that to do dual monitor support you need a video card that is designed to support multiple monitors. Matrox video cards are known for this capability. I believe all of the newer video cards have models that support dual mode.

[aox0m0xoa]

i know my geforce is capable of dual monitors, ive used it for my main display and onboard video for the secondary display, the only problem is, the option in the nvidia drivers doesnt show up since the trio is disabled. so it doenst detect another display adapter.

[gryphon]

Just using Matrox'es myself at this moment, and have had no problems with 2 and 3 monitors on one graficscard. As far as I know back from the good old vodoo 5 3DFX days in order to use multiple PCI grafic-cards simultaniously the grafics card had to supprot that option itself.

i know its possible, theres no other way to have a 9 monitor display, like windows supports

You know it's possible or just have seen on paper somewhere that Windows supports 9 monitors as maximun ?

Have you used the trio before for this sort of dual display and which Windows version are you on ?

[ think you knew this already but there is a differance in a grafics card that supprots 2 monitors [ aka. dual head or dual monitor ] and a video card that can work together with another grafics card and allow multiple monitors that way ]

:)

[Apollyon]

sorry if I repeat anything said above.

It's very possible. I too have a Geforce 2 and have used it to create an extended desktop using a monitor and a television =). If it's possibe with a TV then its definitely possible with a monitor.

[aox0m0xoa]

both cards have been setup in a dual monitor environment, the only problem i see is having 2 pci cards

[Apollyon]

wait a sec.. am I right in saying youve dual graphics carded the computer? If so that is probably a big problem as I dont think the sytem was meant to work with 2 cards at once.

[Nyarlathotep]

wait a sec.. am I right in saying youve dual graphics carded the computer? If so that is probably a big problem as I dont think the sytem was meant to work with 2 cards at once.

I second that. At least I've never seen it working anyway.

[gryphon]

I have seen them linked together. . there was a time when 2 Vodoo 2 and a TNT card where a grafical deathly combination. And allthought they where better qwa performens then any other card [ for normal consumers ] they where used linked together . . not as 3 seperate cards. I know it could work, and saw a computer ones who had it. No clue how he configured it. The only thing I remember from it was that the PCI card needed to be special grafic cards that could work together with another PCI grafics card. At that time not many cards supported that function.

@ aox0m0xoa

The dual envionment you have used them in . . .was it the same combination or combined with a build in or AGP grafics card ?

Doesn't the chipset you have on your grafics card supports dual display with just one grafics card ?

[aox0m0xoa]

ive used the geforce2 with onboard video, and the trio with an agp geforce3. no, the cards both only have one vga out.

[Nyarlathotep]

The only thing I can think of is making sure they both use different IRQ's. You might want to check upon that.