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Terry Wood (woody@{spam.bites}.daemon.apana.org.au) wrote:
: 
: Actually the best combination would be to get a PCI SVGA card which
: also has a MONO db9 connector on it so i can use the little orange
: monitor that i have on it now, now and then.  Does anyone know of such
: a card?  Ive looked around the swap meets but to no avail.
: 
Some of the early vga cards had 9-pin connectors (as well as the 15-pin 
vga connector), which were intended for ega monitors.  I don't think you 
could connect and use two monitors at once, because you switched between 
the connectors.

As far as hardware is concerned, you can put a Hercules board in the same
machine as a vga card, though the vga card has to be connected to a colour
monitor.  Each will work fine, and you can switch between them at the dos
prompt, for instance, with mode mono and mode co80.

There is a software problem using both at once, as dos and linux grab the
vga card and don't notice the Hercules board, unless told to look for it. 
It is soluble, as OS/2 will drive both, but I don't know how it is solved
under linux - I have never seriously experimented with this setup under
linux. 

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