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Date:      Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:08:28 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com>, ladan@east.isi.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dual Head Monitors & FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19990219100828.Y14890@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990218104025.B3771@winternet.com>; from Nathan Ahlstrom on Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 10:40:25AM -0600
References:  <199902181123.LAA13398@chai.east.isi.edu> <19990218104025.B3771@winternet.com>

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On Thursday, 18 February 1999 at 10:40:25 -0600, Nathan Ahlstrom wrote:
> Ladan Gharai <ladan@chai.east.isi.edu> wrote:
>> I am interested in having two monitors on my
>> FreeBSD machine. Does FreeBSD support dual head
>> monitors?
>
> Supposedly XFree86 4.0 will have support for multiple screens.

Correct.

> Until then I don't believe so.  See
> http://www.XFree86.org/releaseplans.html for more information.

http://www.xig.com/ shows a commercial offering.  It works fine if you
have the correct display board combination.  I'm a bit annoyed that the
combination I got for the old version is no longer supported in the
new, so I'm waiting for XFree86 4.0 before I upgrade.

Greg
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