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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:27:03 -0500
From:      splite@purdue.edu
To:        Oyvind Moll <oyvindmo@pvv.ntnu.no>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted
Message-ID:  <19991216132703.A198331@fry.cs.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <dsld7s7gjdt.fsf@apollo.orakel.ntnu.no>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912161235180.10165-100000@faber.poli.hu> <dsld7s7gjdt.fsf@apollo.orakel.ntnu.no>

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On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 01:28:14PM +0100, Oyvind Moll wrote:
> * Egervary Gergely
> |
> | > XFree86 was written to support one monitor per VGA chip
> | > and cannot cope with 2 RAMDACs on one controller.
> | 
> | ok then need to use pci cards. damn.
> 
> Is it possible to use one AGP card and one PCI card together?
> (e.g. PCI Matrox Mill. I + AGP Matrox Mill. II)
> The release notes for XFree86 3.9.16 were a bit vague on that point.

Yes, it is.  I've used precisely that setup and it worked well.  (Okay, this
was XFree86 3.9.16 under Linux (sorry, this was at work), but I can't
imagine it not working under FreeBSD as well.)


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