Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:12:41 -0700 From: Flemming Froekjaer <flemming@froekjaer.org> To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> Cc: adyas@twowaytv.co.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple monitors, one PC Message-ID: <3B5DAC89.28B7A49D@froekjaer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107240921320.5567-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
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"f.johan.beisser" wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Alex Dyas wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> i know that FreeBSD itself can handle multiple graphics cards. XFree86-4
> can run two different cards at the same time (which i have done), but i'm
> not sure what hte upper limit is,
There is as far as i now no limitation on how many cards you can have.
>
> which allows you to move desktop items between two screens. the limitation
> is that it does not work if you have two different video cards. they all
> have to be identical (please double check this too, since i've not been
That is not nasesary. I'm writing this on FreeBSD with a ATI and a Matrox
card.
The only requerment is that only the primary video card may post. It's usualy
a jumper you have to move.
From my XF86Config
Section "Device"
Identifier "Matrox"
Driver "mga"
BusID "PCI:0:18:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
\Flemming
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