Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:07:24 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: adyas@twowaytv.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple monitors, one PC Message-ID: <3B5D8F2C.3921BE34@i-clue.de> References: <20010724151604.Y2859-100000@r2d2.twowaytv.co.uk>
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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
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