[clue-tech] Dual monitors with 2 video cards?

[Adam Bultman]

Bruce Ediger wrote:
> I just saw this nifty slashdot article asking for documentary proof
> that using more than 1 monitor "helps" in some fashion:
>
> http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/2321255&from=rss
>
> I thought to myself, "Hey, I have a motherboard with a built-in S3 
> "Virge"
> or somesuch, and I have a Matrox AGP video card in it. Can I use both
> video "cards" to drive 2 monitors?"



Yes, yes you can.   You can even get three working, although in my 
experience that is pushing it (although my third card was a 1M card, and 
could only push something like 640x480.)

 Currently, I have two monitors, but they are on separate machines 
(video cards for suns are expensive). I use synergy to share my keyboard 
and mouse to the 'slave' over the network.    Synergy works with an 
arbitrary number of computers, although at some point you need to say 
to  yourself, "Where am I going to fit all the PCs for a 10 head setup?"

Adam