> Here's my reasoning. I have a nice AGP video card that for my box and I want > to continue to use it for my display. Someone gave me a PCI TV tuner card > that I'd also like to use. Trouble is it only has 2MB video RAM, so I don't > want to use it as my primary display. I also don't have a second decent > monitor so I figured since I can export displays in XFree86 and all, how about > putting both cards in, running an X display on each, then exporting the window > of the TV turner program to my main display, on the nice AGP card, and I can > have the best of both worlds. Will this work? I haven't tried it, but I'd > like some data on this before I take down my machine for it. URLs are good as > well, I haven't done much of a search on this yet. What brand/model tuner card is it? Is it even stupported by Linux? Its unlikely it can transfer to another card. Slap a cheap monitor on it, or invest in a bt848 based tuner, which is designed to display to any card... Here's my own multihead setup, with a Hauppage capture card: http://www.404error.com/seg/stuff/screen2.jpg And what I have to do to keep all the cards cool: http://www.404error.com/seg/stuff/cooling.jpg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org
