[ale] Dual video on HP pavillion running Centos

[splante at insightsys.com (Scott Plante)]

"Neal Rhodes" <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote: 
... 
> The unit was delivered with an additional card: an HP 634478-001, which 
> is an HP flavor of AMD Radeon, which has DVI and HDMI only. (no VGA; 
> weird.) ... 




This isn't responsive to your main question, but regarding the above: 
DVI-I includes VGA signals in the connector--you just need a cheap pin-format converter to use a VGA monitor/cable. DVI-D skips the VGA signal/pins. A quick Googling says that HP model card is DVI-I so you could use something like this, which I have purchased and used ($2.69): 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OBVCO2/ 

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