From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 22 19:53:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA09333 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 19:53:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from papillon.lemis.com (papillon.lemis.com [192.109.197.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09253 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 19:52:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id TAA00584; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 19:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19980621191219.37475@papillon.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 19:12:19 -0700 From: Greg Lehey To: Charlie & , Sean-Paul Rees , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and 2 screens? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Charlie & on Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 10:21:19PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 June 1998 at 22:21:19 -0400, Charlie & wrote: > Sean-Paul Rees writes: > >> I was wondering if it were possible to have XFree control 2 video >> cards, with 2 monitors, without conflicting, and allow me to control >> each one interchangeably? Would it be possible with 1 card? > > I believe xinside sells an X server that will do this, but I haven't > tried it. If you do, and it works, let me know. Xinside is at > . The multi-headed server costs $300, and the > cards have to be the same. I've been running an older version of this server for years. They didn't always have to be the same, but I know there have always been severe restrictions on the combinations. I'm using an ATI Mach 64 and an old Matrox Millenium. > Alternatively, there are some high end cards that support two heads, > but I don't know if any are supported by XFree86. I think we need to clarify the original question. What exactly does (anonymous) want to do? It's not clear that (s)he is even interested in running X. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message