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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Seeing posts about multiple monitors recently and I'm thinking of treating > myself to a nice shine new one, and running the old one as a 2nd display... > However my mobo might not be up to it - I would have to use a (gasp!) PCI > graphics card for the exising monitor - 1280x1024 while the on-board copes > with the new one (er, 1920x1080 which I think the mobo will cope with... > Intel chipsset) > > Aria: > > http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Displays/Monitors/TFT+20+-+23/Arianet+23%22+Full+HD+Widescreen+LCD+Monitor+-+Black+?productId=37241 > > My current monitor is the 19" version by the same maker and it's been (still > is!) really good for the past few years now, and cost about the same price > as that did too. > > (didn't come with the nice photo though )-; > > Mobo just has a single 32-bit PCI slot. I have an nvidia riva-128 PCI card > which I used in my last system without any real issues. > > I suspect I'm simply barking up the wrong tree trying to mix 2 different > graphics systems (on-board + PCI) but it's not something I've ever looked > into.. The only problems I've had previously is that I forgot that when a motherboard has an AGP slot, if there is an onboard graphics chip it tends to also be AGP - adding an AGP card seems to disable the onboard one. You shouldn't have a problem with PCI, though. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html