From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 21:33:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D5F16A4CF for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:33:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.cableone.net (scanmail2.cableone.net [24.116.0.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B2F43D53 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:33:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net (unverified [24.119.122.25]) by smail2.cableone.net (SurgeMail 1.9b) with ESMTP id 22746885 for multiple; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:32:18 -0700 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:32:49 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20041020163249.369c0a03@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <20041020193306.GD69952@keyslapper.org> References: <20041020185545.GC69952@keyslapper.org> <4176B7D3.2030507@circlesquared.com> <20041020193306.GD69952@keyslapper.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12b (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com cc: FreeBSD@keyslapper.org Subject: Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:33:43 -0000 On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:33:06 -0400 Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 10/20/04 08:09 PM, Peter Risdon sat at the `puter and typed: > > Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > On 10/20/04 01:40 PM, Michael Clark sat at the `puter and typed: > > > I dont have the computer here to post the config =( > > > > You need two screen sections, two monitor sections and two device > > sections in the X config file. > > > > If it helps, a working example follows: > > That helps a ton. Thank you *very* much. > > I'm still curious about my last question though. I suddenly > realized I'm not being entirely clear where there's room for > misinterpretation. > > I'm wondering at this point if I should go buy a second physical > video card to install into my tower. Not whether I should configure > in a second card section in the X config. Depends on the card... I know I can handle three device on my fx5200(2 dsub 15 and 1 svideo), with iirc them all being able to have seperates screens with out any of them being mirrored, but I would still say it would be best to check up on the specific model you have... I looked at this awhile back, covering dsub15 connectors not D/A DVI connectors. The problem I ran into was flaky info on this area. I was wanting to find a card that would run doom3 nicely and run dual monitor. I found I could easily have gotten a more powerful card than a fx5200 and dvi to dsub15 converter for the less than the price of a dual dsub15 fx5200. I got looking into it more and got lots of conflicting into. I found a massive lack of useful specs on the cards and chipsets... mainly in the area of what sort of DVI connector they have on them... wether it is DVI A or D... and wether it was going to be a mirror of the dsub connector or not. Among the older nvidia cards, from what I can tell, the DVI connector was generally just a mirror of the dsub15 connector. > I'm starting to think I won't, otherwise you'd probably have > mentioned a card section for each card, right? So the physical > hookup will have one monitor plugged into the standard video port, > and the second plugged into the DVI port via an adaptor. What > adaptor would I be using? See above :/ Looked into that when looking for a nice dual head card for my dual boot box... I decided it would just be simpler to get a card with two dsub15 connectors... >From a lot of googling I did back in july over this, I would not trust it unless their are either two DVI or dsub15 connectors :/