You want a vid card with dual outputs. Go for a NVIDIA/ATI card, or if you do not care about the latest and greatest games then get a Matrox Gx Series card.

Or go with the Parhelia - triple outputs... 😀

I don't think you can have video output to both PCI and AGP busses..

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I don't think you can have video output to both PCI and AGP busses..

You'd be wrong:
http://home.t-online.de/home/PeteBernert/tales.htm#The tale of the two gfx brothers

I don't know if you can output Direct3D/OpenGL to both monitors at once. But multiple monitor/multiple graphics card support has been around since Win98, PCI-PCI or AGP-PCI (but no AGP1-AGP2). The ideal sort of thing for testing wrappers or PSX GPU plugins (see above).

As I said, there IS no motherboard with multiple AGP slots. Yet. But the idea is out there...
http://www.sysopt.com/articles/samurai/index2.html

From what I've heard Parhelia is very slow; its also expensive ( 😉 ) so unlikely for me.

PCI/AGP combinations have been around for a while; like Stiletto says I don't know whether they support rendering Direct3D/OpenGL at the same time; but that is unneccessary to me anyway because I need to monitors mainly to increase my desktop space, which I use for development work.

I would like a dual head card, maybe a dual ATI 9700?? HAha I wish (do they even exist?). I'll most likely get a Matrox 32mb.

Hmm... well, can you use the VGA digital-out and the VGA analogue-out on an nVidia GF3/GF4 simultaneously?

I can't.. I can't even set TV-out and CRT display simultaniously (did I spell that correctly?) with the original drivers. (XP thing)

I'm not that sure though.. never really tried it..

I also can't use both the digital and the analogue vga outpot together. Atleast with 40.72 drivers that is

Odd, try Nvidia's 40.x series. I've heard that they enable simultaneous usage of both CRT and TV.

It works great on my Radeon 9700...but only if I use the analog output on my vid card and the TV. It doesn't seem to like DVI & TV. 🙁 (It's been awhile since I tried, first revision of 9700 drivers in fact so mabye they have fixed this)

Arf this went wrong.

If I select the Digital flat screen my CRT monitor ticks off.. wait let me get the panel again.. (It isn't mine)

Ah now I get it. I need to use the Nview tool. I usually disable handy tools like that right away.

Seems to work fine, except I can't get my refresh rate higher then 60Hz on the crt. Probably nothing. Can't fiddle any longer now, my dad want's his display back.

It's on a Gforce 3

On my GeForce3 Ti500, I can only get TV out working with an application called TVTool... setting dual view on, I can see stuff on both my desktop and on my TV. Although, at lower resolutions, it looks horrible on the TV, and at higher resolutions, the monitor gets all messed up.
I usually use a resolution of 1024x768 which works fine, but when I try to use dual view, and that same resolution on the TV... it's hard to describe, heh.

Well, at least there IS a way to do it. 😉

hehe - that's true 😀
i'm thinking someday, if i get bored enough, i'll hook my tv out into the input on my tv card... so i could see my computer displaying my computer displaying my computer displaying... it'd be so cool! i wonder if it'd crash, hehe 😀

...
wow.
that would have to require some supreme boredness.

Oh, FWIW, I've done that before with a webcam and no, it doesn't crash the thing. 😜