From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 2 05:08:29 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 0E32616A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 05:08:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A582443D46 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 05:08:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kjelderg@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i8so53638rne for ; Sat, 01 Jan 2005 21:08:28 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=FCsNzU+n+icvuWQIC0wNMIIay407pZjl2LOFTP3mBSpcqkMrHwv0sMXS+aNvr/hnvycfFSTnTSPgi+wRs5HFLRqYbNaaPPoYcasV/LDKAjnrMSJO3kEZCMR8zJLNC+ZqIHFH8wqXVVO+RCId4DKIKLKo9gj1TXFtpyxB/JNW3UY= Received: by 10.38.92.78 with SMTP id p78mr205147rnb; Sat, 01 Jan 2005 21:08:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.101.3 with HTTP; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 21:08:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 23:08:28 -0600 From: Eric Kjeldergaard To: Joe Schmoe In-Reply-To: <20041226014550.45577.qmail@web53308.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041226014550.45577.qmail@web53308.mail.yahoo.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: triple monitor hardware setup on FBSD - suggestions needed... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Eric Kjeldergaard List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 05:08:29 -0000 > I am currently running a triple-monitor setup under > winXP, with an extended desktop that stretches across > all three monitors. I like it. > > I would, however, like to use FreeBSD. Good choice :) > So, first off, what hardware (video card) comes to > mind for doing triple screens with FreeBSD ? A matrox > P750 comes to mind, but when you run it with three > screens, they downgrade to 1280x1024, which is bad. I > am happy to consider multiple video cards to > accomplish this ... at the very least I need 1600x1200 > out of each card, preferably 1920x1200 ... Well, as far as hardware goes for my tri-monitor, I usually have a Radeon 7500 and an geforce2 mx400 (or some other cruddy pci card) though I'm using a matrox G450 for the primary right now. Really, any combination of supported video cards will work about equally well. > Second, what is the support for something like this in > XFree86, or x.org ? What I am really looking for is > the ability to create virtually sized screens - so > instead of having three total (physical) screens that > I can maximize windows inside of, I want to split each > physical screen in half for a total of 6 virtual > screens - so there are six total areas within which I > can maximize a window in ... this is something I am > really trying to accomplish. I'd like to say that this is a trivial thing to do, but I kind of doubt that it is. I know of no easy way to do this because X as it is now, assigns a "head" to a screen (where by head I mean a video card output) and in doing so, makes the "head" atomic in a sense. What it sounds like you'd like to do is create something smaller than this and assign it to a screen. It might be substantially easier to just purchase more monitors or learn to use virtual desktops. Good luck finding something that suits you :) -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised.