From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 05:15:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA22550 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 05:15:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garion.hq.ferg.com (pm1-19.wmbg.widomaker.com [204.17.220.119]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA22535 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 05:14:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.hq.ferg.com (localhost.hq.ferg.com [127.0.0.1]) by garion.hq.ferg.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA12042; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 08:14:20 -0400 Message-Id: <199607191214.IAA12042@garion.hq.ferg.com> X-Authentication-Warning: garion.hq.ferg.com: Host localhost.hq.ferg.com didn't use HELO protocol From: Branson Matheson To: James Raynard cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, roeya@iol.co.il, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video Display Cards In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:07:53 GMT." <199607182107.VAA09511@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 08:14:19 -0400 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -------- James Raynard uttered with conviction: > Doug White > > On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Roey Almog wrote: >> > 2. Another importent aspect to software devlopers is a daul monitor > support currently I use MDA monitor to run a d ebugger and to send > debug massages to, and the S_VGA monitor is fr ee for the tested > application. Is these will be possible on the FreeBSD o/s ? >> > I don't know if FreeBSD itself supports multiheaded displays. XFree > might. I can't say I've tried it. I have ... you need to use the Monochrome driver... this is kinda a bummer for the vga side.. but it works well.. look at the Xmono manpage. -branson PS> I once asked if it could go multiheaded on a PCI bus... I was told that the possiblity existed but that no-one had tried it.. has anyone done that? ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?