From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 24 8: 5: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E3637B406 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 08:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id RAA30151; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:13:03 +0200 Message-ID: <3B5D8F2C.3921BE34@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:07:24 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: adyas@twowaytv.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple monitors, one PC References: <20010724151604.Y2859-100000@r2d2.twowaytv.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Alex Dyas wrote: > > 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? Thats not a problem of FreeBSD, but a problem of your X Server. XFree86 4.x has been updated to handle multiple graphics cards. As long as your hardware can accommodate them, just add graphics boards. Make sure those are supported at www.xfree86.org. Note: NVidia boards tend to lag behind, since no hardware specs get published. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message