Gabe Yoder <gyoder@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > That would mostly depend on how friendly the graphics drivers decided > to > behave. When I was initially developing the AccelerantDriver for the > app_server, I was attempting to run my graphics stuff on the > secondary > graphics card. In my case, the primary was a Geforce 2 and the > secondary was > an old pci ATI Rage 2. The secondary graphics card refused to open > properly. > Assuming that you don't hit problems like that, it should just be a > matter of > tweaking the app_server code to initialize using the secondary card. > Wasn't the problem that it wouldn't do a cold initialization, which from what I've understood is vital to using a secondary graphics card. Would be nice to know before I buy myself an nVidia PCI (can't really use them for much else :P) Other than that, does it seem feasible? Thanks though! -- Mikael > On Saturday 23 July 2005 08:29 am, Mikael Jansson (mailing lists) > wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Would it be possible to run BeOS on the primary graphics card and > > run > > the Haiku app_server on a secondary, such as an nvidia? (having > > cold- > > start support). > > > > Specifically, I was thinking a setup with BeOS playing movies on > > the TV > > -output on the primary graphics card, and the GUI being displayed > > on > > the second, using the Haiku app_server. > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > -- Mikael >