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From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted
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Roger Hardiman wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need to build some new Multi-Head FreeBSD machines
> in my lab using XFree86 3.9.16.
> 
> I want to know which VGA cards to buy
> for Multi-Head (dual monitor) support.
> 
> Currently I have 1 multi-head FreeBSD machine using
> Matrox Millenium cards abd XFree86 3.9.16.
> It works great, but you cannot buy Millenium cards any more.
> 
> Reading the XFree86 docs, it seems almost all PCI cards are
> supported multihead on Linux where they can issue an INT 10
> call to initialise the BIOS in the secondary card.
> I'm not sure it we can support that in FreeBSD.

Have you considered buying Metro-X?  It supports up to 4 screens on just
about any combination of AGP and PCI Matrox cards.  For more information,
see http://www.metrolink.com/productindex.html and look for Multi-Headed
Display Support.  Metro-X is only $39.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/


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