From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 24 7:23:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from r2d2.twowaytv.co.uk (smeg.twowaytv.co.uk [194.6.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82CE237B408 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 07:23:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@twowaytv.co.uk) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by r2d2.twowaytv.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6OEOSu02882 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:24:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from alex@twowaytv.co.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: r2d2.twowaytv.co.uk: alex owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:24:28 +0100 (BST) From: Alex Dyas Reply-To: To: Subject: Multiple monitors, one PC Message-ID: <20010724151604.Y2859-100000@r2d2.twowaytv.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We currently run 5 low-end PCs with FreeBSD as a monitoring station. Each of the machines acts as an X server to machines elsewhere running a variety of simple x apps, xterm, xload etc. The solution is very simple and works very well. However, I can't help but think that one machine could quite adequately handle all this, freeing up 4 machines to do other things. The problem being one of how do you connect 5 monitors to one machine, and then subsequently how does X deal with this? Can FreeBSD handle multiple graphics cards? Thanks, alex.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message