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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:12:41 -0700
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To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>
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Subject: Re: Multiple monitors, one PC
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"f.johan.beisser" wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Alex Dyas wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> i know that FreeBSD itself can handle multiple graphics cards. XFree86-4
> can run two different cards at the same time (which i have done), but i'm
> not sure what hte upper limit is,

There is as far as i now no limitation on how many cards you can have.

>
> which allows you to move desktop items between two screens. the limitation
> is that it does not work if you have two different video cards. they all
> have to be identical (please double check this too, since i've not been

That is not nasesary. I'm writing this on FreeBSD with a ATI and a Matrox
card.
The only requerment is that only the primary video card may post. It's usualy
a jumper you have to move.

From my XF86Config

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Matrox"
    Driver      "mga"
    BusID       "PCI:0:18:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "ATI"
    Driver      "ati"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

\Flemming



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