Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:17:19 +0100 From: "Dan Cuthbert" <daniel.cuthbert@uk.psi.com> To: "Freebsd-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Dualhead setup Message-ID: <FMEDIJKKKMABBAOLJMLKCEPBCJAA.daniel.cuthbert@uk.psi.com>
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Blooody hell do you have enough spec there? :=) okay hardware wise its gonna run really fast! and i mean that! what you need to do is get the machine (do you have it yet?) once its at your work install the OS BUT!!!!!! do not install the Xserver during the installation once the machine is up and running and you have gone through the dmesg to see that the two cards have been picked up by the kernel, then we can start... now you will need a uptodate ports tree, easiest way is download the tarball from ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports.tar.gz save this into your /usr directory and untar it, but beware it takes a while! then... log in as root and goto /usr/ports/x11-server/XFree86-4-Server (i think thats the correct name, but double check) and issue the command make install again this is gonna take a while! once thats finished, if you want you can reboot the server once its backup , log in as root, make sure that your monitors are attached the the cards and that you have all the info about the monitors handy (ie model name, number horizontal and vertical refresh rates! very important the last two ones!) then on the command line issue the command xf86cfg after a while it should bring up both screens with a nifty little screen in the topleft hand corner Here you will need to make sure that one card is attached to one monitor (this should already be done) if you right click on the card\monitor\keyboard\mouse you can fill the necessary details in.. Once your happy, click on the quit button and say yes to the directory where it wants to save it okay were nearly there... then goto /root and you need to issue this command cp /root/XF86config.new /etc/X11 then hold your fingers and type startx if it works, great, if not send me the log file thats in /var/log/XFree86.0.log and ill see whats up Dan Dan Cuthbert European Hosting Research & Engineering PSINet Datacentres mobile : +44 77 1279 0646 -----Original Message----- From: Colin J. Raven [mailto:cjraven@ddf-lab.com] Sent: 27 October 2000 16:04 To: daniel.cuthbert@uk.psi.com Subject: Re: Matrox G400 Dan; That's good news indeed. God knows why Dell is saying it isn't compatible. Maybe I'll get them on the 'phone and grill 'em a bit. What scares me is the "all it leaves you to do is play and get it up and running" There's a gazillion things to trap a newbie like me contained within that phrase :-) I may need your help with the dualhead config, it's good to know that there's some help "out there" The ultimate objective is to have an enlightenment desktop running on one monitor, and a Win98 desktop on the other, sort of a "best of both worlds" scenario. The Linux box will run as a mail server (20 users shouldn't tax it too much) and I'll use the extra horsepower to run Windows over VMWare...or at least I hope that is going to happen. I don't know if the machine is specc'd right for this, so here's a brief system overview: Dell Precision 610 workstation 933MHZ Pentium III Xeon chip, 512 MB RAM, dual 18GB 15000rpm drives, and of course, the famous G400 video card. Intended apps that will run are: postfix, procmail, X, Enlightenment (I hope), VMWare, Win[something] probably 98 SE2. I can go to 1GB of RAM...hell I just looked at the specs again, I could go to 2GB if I had to (although I hardly think this is called for under any scenario) What worries me is X, Enlightenment and VMWare running together, they are all RAM hogs, Win98 Access, Outlook, Word and xcel will put quite a hurt on the system too I would imagine. Let me know what you think is appropriate hardware-wise. What part of the UK are you in BTW?? I'm an exiled Manchester lad these past 22 years, living in New York. Thanks for the guidance and offer of help, both are truly appreciated. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven >IT will work, Xfree supports it! Matrox and Xfree have always worked >together with regards compatability of the cards, so all it leaves you to do >is play and get it up and running >If you need any help with Dualhead let me know! >Dan Cuthbert >European Hosting Research & Engineering >PSINet Datacentres >mobile: +44 77 1279 0646 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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