dual-head

Justin Georgeson jgeorgeson at lopht.net
Sat Apr 3 05:12:21 UTC 2004


Chris Kloiber wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 11:27, jludwig wrote:
> 
>>I was trying to use a Voodoo 2 card in a two head system. I could not
>>get the Voodoo card working with anything else and suspect there is a
>>bug in the card BIOS that won't allow it to reside with another video
>>card. 
>>-- 
>>jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
> 
> 
> If I recall correctly the *Only* way to use a Voodoo2 was with another
> video card. The Voodoo2 only delivered 3D graphics, and it basically
> piped the 2D desktop through it unchanged. 
> 
> (It's been a while, I could be all wet.)
> 

The Voodoo 2 does 3D. But the Linux driver starting with X 4.0 doesn't 
really handle it. With  3.3 the Voodoo 2 handled games like Unreal 
Tournament quite well at 1024x768.





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