From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 16 2:59:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F8214CB8; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 02:59:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roger@cs.strath.ac.uk) Received: from muir-10 (roger@muir-10.cs.strath.ac.uk [130.159.148.10]) by fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA07017 Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:59:13 GMT Message-ID: <3858C600.41C6@cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:59:12 +0000 From: Roger Hardiman Organization: University of Strathclyde X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I need to build some new Multi-Head FreeBSD machines in my lab using XFree86 3.9.16. I want to know which VGA cards to buy for Multi-Head (dual monitor) support. Currently I have 1 multi-head FreeBSD machine using Matrox Millenium cards abd XFree86 3.9.16. It works great, but you cannot buy Millenium cards any more. Reading the XFree86 docs, it seems almost all PCI cards are supported multihead on Linux where they can issue an INT 10 call to initialise the BIOS in the secondary card. I'm not sure it we can support that in FreeBSD. Cheers Roger -- Roger Hardiman | Telepresence Research Group roger@cs.strath.ac.uk | DMEM, University of Strathclyde tel: 0141 548 2897 | Glasgow, Scotland, G1 1XJ, UK fax: 0141 552 0557 | http://www.telepresence.strath.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message