From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 8 17:45:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA27130 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:45:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (root@ns.ki.net [142.77.249.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA27116 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:45:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA14235; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 20:44:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 20:44:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-Sender: scrappy@hub.org To: Philippe Regnauld cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Monitor Systems... In-Reply-To: <199601080015.BAA01716@tetard.frmug.fr.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Just curious, but I read somewhere that XFree86 Supports dual monitors... is that correct? If so, and assuming it works under FreeBSD, one=20 solution may be to have the non-19" monitor be the boot monitor and=20 only be used when X starts up...also giving you a larger work area. Again, I may have misunderstood when I saw this point go through one of the lists, so XFree86 might not support dual monitors ... On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Philippe Regnauld wrote: > J Wunsch =E9crit / writes: >=20 > > If you are debugging an X server, your best bet is a serial console, >=20 > =09... Let's say I'm not debugging an X server :-) >=20 > =09As I said earlier, my prior concern is not toasting my 19" monitor > =09(it's a fixed frequency) in the time between bootup and the start > =09of the X server. I'd gladly use a serial console, but: >=20 > =091) From what keyboard does the X take its input once I've > =09 started X from the serial console? >=20 > =092) How do I keep my undisciplined VGA (Diamond 968) from sending > =09 a signal to the monitor until I tell it to? :-) >=20 > =09I had in mind changing the address on the card (don't ask me how!) > =09and keeping a standard VGA 14" on the other adapter. >=20 > --=20 > - [ regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net / +48.8N+2.3E / +33 1 4507 9391 / Sol 3 = ] - > - [ regnauld@freenix.fr=09=09 / FreeBSD 2.x / =09=09=09 ] - > "Le schtroumpf est =E0 l'homme ce que le bleu est au billard" - F.Berjo= n >=20 Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge,=20 Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc