Thanks for your response. Sorry, I should have been more clear. I could probably get away with X, but I was hoping to find a way to drive each video card and write to them with something like a file handle and without X. In a dream world I could use Perl to do something like: tail -f -n 1 /var/log/messages > /dev/video1 tail -f -n 1 /var/log/xferlog > /dev/video2 tail -f -n 1 /var/log/secure > /dev/video3