From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 17 12:03:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FEC516A412 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:03:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from lon-mail-1.gradwell.net (lon-mail-1.gradwell.net [193.111.201.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2985913C441 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:03:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from lon-mail-1.gradwell.net ([193.111.201.125] helo=webmaker country=GB ident=dave*pop3*dgmm$net) by lon-mail-1.gradwell.net with esmtpa (Gradwell gwh-smtpd 1.243) id 469ca68d.16246.be for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:22:53 +0100 (envelope-sender ) From: dgmm To: FreeBSD Mailing List Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:22:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707171222.51982.freebsd01@dgmm.net> Subject: Dual head video cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:03:52 -0000 Are there any "gotchas" I should look out for when purchasing a dual head video card? I'm currently looking for a cheap NVidia card with both analogue and digital output to use my old 21" CRT and the new 19" LCD but, as usual, there's very little info other than for Windows in the write ups/reviews. I've never used dual head before so I'm concerned that some cards might share resources to the extent that they are windows only . Maybe I'm seeing potential problems that aren't there? Budget is tight so I don't want to screw up the purchase. "Cheap" is word I'm looking for :-) -- Dave