dual-head

Justin Georgeson jgeorgeson at lopht.net
Sat Apr 3 05:14:41 UTC 2004


Justin Georgeson wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

egh, just reread what you said. Voodoo 2 works fine standalone, I've 
been using it for a few years by itself.





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