Dual monitors question

[Lowell Hamilton]

On my play box I have a GeForcePro2 AGP and a PCI Matrox G200PCI - on my
production box I have a dual-head Matrox G450 agp and another one PCI
(only using 1 head from the 2nd though).

Yes you can control the resolutions independently - you can have
independent placement, color depth, and resolutions on each screen ...
you can even ctrlalt+ and ctrlalt- individual screens.  My production
box has 2 19" screens at 1240x1024, screen 2 rightof screen 1 and a 15"
screen at 1024x768 above screen1 (for those spiffy xmms plugins).  

For your second card, go brand name since a lot of generic cards don't
know how to coexist with other cards on your system.  Matrox and ATI are
good choices and you can get a G200PCI for around $25 and it's pretty
quick in X.

Careful though, once you go multi monitor, it hurts to go back =)

Lowell

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On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 12:30, Mark Anderson wrote:
> I have an AMD 1.5ghz with 1.5mb of ram.  I installed a AGP gforce 2 mmx card with a 21" compac 
> monitor.  I am curious if I can install a generic PCI or ISA video card and 15" monitor. Will I be
> able to control the resolutions of each monitor seperately.
> 
> Mark