From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 15:38:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3748011B58 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:38:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA22597; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:08:29 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA18625; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:08:28 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990219100828.Y14890@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:08:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Nathan Ahlstrom , ladan@east.isi.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Head Monitors & FreeBSD References: <199902181123.LAA13398@chai.east.isi.edu> <19990218104025.B3771@winternet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990218104025.B3771@winternet.com>; from Nathan Ahlstrom on Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 10:40:25AM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 18 February 1999 at 10:40:25 -0600, Nathan Ahlstrom wrote: > Ladan Gharai wrote: >> I am interested in having two monitors on my >> FreeBSD machine. Does FreeBSD support dual head >> monitors? > > Supposedly XFree86 4.0 will have support for multiple screens. Correct. > Until then I don't believe so. See > http://www.XFree86.org/releaseplans.html for more information. http://www.xig.com/ shows a commercial offering. It works fine if you have the correct display board combination. I'm a bit annoyed that the combination I got for the old version is no longer supported in the new, so I'm waiting for XFree86 4.0 before I upgrade. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message