From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 24 21:53:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B065937B423 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 21:53:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A12846ACBC; Fri, 25 May 2001 14:23:38 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:23:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jason Halbert Cc: Robert Myers , fish@webaid.nu, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Multiple monitors Message-ID: <20010525142338.N26315@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <000001c0e4be$b6d7f7a0$4bbefea9@ccrider2k> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from res02jw5@gte.net on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:50:07PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, May 23, 2001 1:49 PM, fish@webaid.nu wrote: > On Thursday, May 24, 2001 16:59, Robert Myers wrote: >> On Thursday, 24 May 2001 at 21:50:07 -0500, Jason Halbert wrote: >>> >>> I feel I've tried to find this in your documentation but >>> I can't find it. I have two monitors on two different >>> cards installed, this works just fine in Win98 so I know >>> it should work. I can see that FreeBSD finds my two >>> cards just fine, but after that nothing happens. I >>> though that perhaps I could add a console to my second >>> screen in /etc/ttys but I didn't get that working >>> either. Irritation enough I have a feeling I saw a FAQ >>> about just this in my usr docs directory a couple of >>> years ago. Please send me an address or anything from >>> where I can solve this problem ! Thank you ! >> >> Try searching on the XFree86.org website. >> >> I know that X supports multiple monitor setups. I am not sure about >> the >> console, but I doubt it, it wouldn't >> be any good for anything. :) > > Greg's site talks about multiple monitor support. I can't remember > the link to his site though. Maybe someone else does. I've discussed this in a number of places, including my diary, notably on 26 January 2001 at http://echunga.lemis.com/~grog/diary-jan2001.html Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message