From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 11 16:16: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hub.lovett.com (hub.lovett.com [216.60.121.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D7137B423 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:15:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cobra.lovett.com ([10.0.0.3]) by hub.lovett.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13Ycnu-000F2K-00; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:15:58 -0500 Received: (from ade@localhost) by cobra.lovett.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8BNFr990766; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:15:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ade) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:15:53 -0500 From: Ade Lovett To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multihead X (was: Making XFree86-4 the default) Message-ID: <20000911181553.B24889@FreeBSD.org> References: <200009091343.e89Dhg411508@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000910101026.B15703@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000910111252.C9690@spawn.nectar.com> <20000911094732.C19199@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000910195707.A12213@spawn.nectar.com> <20000911114500.A22528@FreeBSD.org> <20000912083355.H19431@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000912083355.H19431@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:33:55AM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:33:55AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > Where do you get M IIs from nowadays? I had two already.. found another one inside a Dell box at a clearout sale they had when they shut down the retail outlet here. Cost US$2 > What I've ended up doing is: > > Monitor 1 (left) G200 at 1600x1200, echunga:0 > Monitor 2 G400 at 1920x1536, wantadilla:0.0 > Monitor 3 M II at 1600x1200, wantadilla:0.1 > Monitor 4 (right) Dell Inspiron 7500 at 1400x1050, sydney:0 Sounds pretty good.. I run with 3 side-by-side, then x2vnc onto my Win2K laptop (it's a Stinkpad. it hates FreeBSD, what can I say? :) Which reminds me.. I really should put x2vnc in the ports tree. > All four are controlled from one keyboard and mouse (on wantadilla) > with x2x (in the Ports Collection). I'm trying to get deviant > (extreme left) connected as well, but I'm having difficulties which > may be insurmountable. Tried running x2x on deviant to sydney (right).. I've seen weird problems trying to daisy-chain lots of machines together.. -aDe -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message