Multiple Monitors
 

I am hooking up 2 monitors to my computer via 2 video cards. (Geforce 1 and Voodo 3) does anyone know if i can hook up another keyboard and mouse so it can be used with the other monitor via USB. i know i can use progs to have mulitple desktops but i have not seen anything that said i can treat the enviroment as a separete computer. Basically i want to have 2 computers running on 1. DOnt' ask y.

you'll need to use some item of software that lets you do that, I've previously considered running two as one, it is a little more complex than connecting up two mice, keyboards and monitor

i must say i love my dual screen and never would go back :)


i dont acualy know if that is posable

I've seen it done with a weird looking splitter box for mouse/keyboard and a special external (!!!) VGA card in some fashion, that was ages ago though.

probably not if microsoft has anything to say about it... i know it is very possible with linux however

ice, thats what I've seen too, it was in pcworld a long time ago, just a small article on a product for it US$195 back then

i remember seeing a hardware/software combo that did that in an old tiger direct catalog. go to their website and look arround, or order their paper catalog, those things never change.

There is actually a thing at Tigerdirect.com that does that... its like 50 bucks or something like tht... do you have a little sister that wants to go on when you do? hehe... j/k

later:D

no, I used to subscribe to their catalog, and they always put it on the back cover or inside front cover. But they recently stopped sending me catalogs, i guese it was cus i never actualy bought anything from them.;)

I know this is an old thread, but an EXCELLENT application that allows you to run more than 1 OS on the same machine at the same time is vmware.

I used to run Linux as my base OS and I'd run windows virtual machines at work for testing things so I would not have to build another stinking machine. It rocks and its only 200 bucks. If you are devious enough, you can run it indefinitely for free, but don't ask me how to do it.

If anyone chooses to do this, I'd recommend that you have 384 megs or more of ram and a fast disk subsystem i.e raid array. Running 2 OSes will bring a slow system to a crawl.


-Ice-

Oh, one more thing. Your base OS must be NT4, Win2k, XP, or Linux. I can't remember if Solaris is an acceptable base OS.

Check it out on http://www.vmware.com