Can notebook serve as second monitor for G5

I have a G5 and a Dell Inspiron 9200. Both have DVI outputs (and Dell has VGA out) on them. Both support multiple monitors. When I'm on my Dell, I can connect my Cinema Display to the notebook and extend the desktop (very nice). I'd like to do the same thing when I using the Mac. My Dell only seems to want to "output" video, though. Is there a way I can "make" it function as a monitor independent of the video signal its receiving from its own CPU? This would greatly speed up productivity for multiple ProApps like FCP, Motion and STP.
G5 Duo-core Mac OS X (10.4.6)

OK, I'm revising my question... I did a little web searching, and it seems everyone is pointing to buying a PCMCIA card that has a DVI port on it. Unfortunately, almost -all- of those cards only OUTPUT DVI. I need a card that takes DVI INPUT (and/or VGA INPUT). All it would have to do is to convince my laptop that I have another video input source (which the card would link to) and I could switch to that one. Any ideas?

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