Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 08:14:19 -0400 From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, roeya@iol.co.il, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video Display Cards Message-ID: <199607191214.IAA12042@garion.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:07:53 GMT." <199607182107.VAA09511@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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-------- James Raynard uttered with conviction: > Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu writes: >> > On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Roey Almog wrote: >> > 2. Another importent aspect to software devlopers is a daul monitor > support currently I use MDA monitor to run a d ebugger and to send > debug massages to, and the S_VGA monitor is fr ee for the tested > application. Is these will be possible on the FreeBSD o/s ? >> > I don't know if FreeBSD itself supports multiheaded displays. XFree > might. I can't say I've tried it. I have ... you need to use the Monochrome driver... this is kinda a bummer for the vga side.. but it works well.. look at the Xmono manpage. -branson PS> I once asked if it could go multiheaded on a PCI bus... I was told that the possiblity existed but that no-one had tried it.. has anyone done that? ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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