[ale] 2 video cards co-existing?

[Nomad the Wanderer]

Actuallly, I think mine can do exactly that also.  Just thought it
was dangerous.  I may have to try it.

Thus spake Patrick Ramsey (Ramsey_Patrick at promina.org):

> Sure is.... We have a box here doing that same thing.  However the motherboard/bios has to support it.  It would be simple if you had one as an AGP and one as a PCI, then you could tell your bios to not assign an irq to the agp card, but assign an irq to the pci card in whichever slot.
> 
> But to get started on the doze side of the world; Disable your primary Windows card in control panel. (do not remove it from control panel)
> Take your normal windows card out, and put in the new care.  Allow windows to install the drivers it needs, then disable that one and re-enable your original. It will require a few reboots but should work fine.
> 
> In linux it will be an irq issue ... I can't remember off the top of my head how to force linux/X to use a certain irq for video and ignore the other.
> 
> -Patrick
> 
> >>> Nomad the Wanderer <nomad at orci.com> 07/09/99 05:03PM >>>
> 
> Got an odd one.  I have 2 video cards, one I want to use in Linux, one
> in Winblowz.  Is it possible to have them co-exist in the machine at the
> same time so I can just unplug the monitor and re-plug it?
> 
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> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> 

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  at Great West Life.           \_            dangerous animals"  - Agent K

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DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.

FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'