From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 19:17:05 2005 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 E3F9416A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:17:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx1.mail.ru (mx1.mail.ru [194.67.23.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9AB43D45 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:17:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aeder@list.ru) Received: from [82.179.204.50] (port=4568 helo=gateway.my.home) by mx1.mail.ru with esmtp id 1CwmTP-0003qi-00; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:17:03 +0300 Received: from [10.0.1.5] (megagame.my.home [10.0.1.5]) by gateway.my.home (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j13JH1gZ002443; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:17:01 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from aeder@list.ru) Message-ID: <420279F1.6050806@list.ru> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:22:25 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?0JDQu9C10LrRgdCw0L3QtNGAINCU0LXRgNC10LLRj9C90LrQvg==?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Schmoe References: <20050201050603.7819.qmail@web53309.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050201050603.7819.qmail@web53309.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: Not detected cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please advise on triple-head _HIGH_ resolution solution forFreeBSD ... 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: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:17:06 -0000 Joe Schmoe wrote: >Hello, > >To let me say initially, I have the goal of buying >three of the new apple 30" cinemadisplays and running >them as one large extended desktop in x11 under >FreeBSD. > >The displays are 2560x1600, and I want to utilize them >at full resolution. > >The question: what hardware can perform this _and_ >work under FreeBSD ? My guess is I have three >choices: > >- find _one_ PCI-X or AGP card that can drive all >three monitors at once ... the matrox p750 can do >this, but only at 1280x1024 for three screens. The >new matrox APVe can also do this, but only at >1920x1080 or below (not quite clear) ... so these are >not valid choices ... are there any single cards that >can do 3x (2560x1600) ? > >- find three normal PCI cards that can each drive >2560x1600 ... not sure if such advanced cards were >ever made for plain old PCI, or how well that would >work ... at 3x that res, would I be getting close to >saturating the PCI bus ? > >- find a system that has 3 PCI-X slots in it (does >that exist ?) and then find 3 PCI-X gfx cards that can >each do 2560x1600 ... any thoughts on this line ? And >if so, what would be a good FreeBSD supported gfx card >to stick three of in a system ? > >------ > >Obviously I need help ... so any comments at all are appreciated. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > According only hardware specs, Matrox Parhelia claimed to support Apple Cinema at full resolution. Indeed, i don't know is it supported in Freebsd. Best regards, Alexander.