Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:24:28 +1000 From: Andrew Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au> To: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual head environment ... can I do it with my video card? Message-ID: <20060630052428.GR69795@camelot.theinternet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060630013019.W1103@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060630013019.W1103@ganymede.hub.org>
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| I was doing some work on my desktop today, and noticed that it has both an
| svga port (where my monitor is currently attached) and a DVI port ... now,
| on another machine I have, it has only the DVI port, and I use a DVI->SVGA
| adapter to plug my monitor in ...
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| So, my question is ... I have a second DVI->SVGA adapter sitting here on
| my desk ... is it possible to use that second port for a second monitor?
| And, if so, does someone have a pointer to have I would configure that?
You can under X, I think if your graphics card actually supports it as a 2nd port.
My Radeon e.g. appears as two cards with pciconf -lv
none6@pci2:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x024218bc chip=0x41521002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
device = 'Radeon 9600 XT (V350)'
class = display
subclass = VGA
none7@pci2:0:1: class=0x038000 card=0x024318bc chip=0x41721002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
device = 'RV360 Radeon 9600 XT - Secondary'
class = display
So it should be a matter of adding another entry to your x conf for the "2nd"
entry, the same as the first, with the Identifier and BusID changed.
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Andrew Milton
akm@theinternet.com.au
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