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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:15:53 -0500
From:      Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multihead X (was: Making XFree86-4 the default)
Message-ID:  <20000911181553.B24889@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000912083355.H19431@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:33:55AM %2B0930
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>

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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/


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