From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 10:40:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA20784 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.138.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA20779 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:40:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA18944 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:40:22 -0700 Message-ID: <3225D605.2ED9@eecs.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:40:21 -0700 From: ERIC MICHAEL MONSLER X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/755) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Support for using multiple monitors X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I am preparing to flee Windoze on my home machine, and am looking at FreeBSD. The question I have is does it contain support for using two (or more) monitors at once? I have upgraded my video card and monitor, and would like to use both sets, particularly under X. My understanding is that the DISPLAY variable contains a provision for multiple screens on a host, but I don't know if this is implemented in FreeBSD and/or XFree86. Under linux I found patch support for two monitors, but only one could be VGA and only one could use X. Any advice and/or pointers to other information will be appreciated; I have searched the XFree86 site documentation and emailed my question to them. Thank you, Eric Monsler