From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 18 17:05:12 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C4C94E for ; Sat, 18 May 2013 17:05:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@pki2.com) Received: from btw.pki2.com (btw.pki2.com [IPv6:2001:470:a:6fd::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E4579BB for ; Sat, 18 May 2013 17:05:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by btw.pki2.com (8.14.6/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r4IH4x3u033928 for ; Sat, 18 May 2013 10:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@pki2.com) Subject: Graphics card differences between CentOS and FBSD (multi monitor)? From: Dennis Glatting To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 10:04:59 -0700 Message-ID: <1368896699.16472.14.camel@btw.pki2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-yoursite-MailScanner-Information: Dennis Glatting X-yoursite-MailScanner-ID: r4IH4x3u033928 X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: freebsd@pki2.com X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 17:05:12 -0000 I have a graphics card that behaves differently under CentOS 6.4 and FreeBSD 9.1. Specifically, it is an older card (Spapphire with a ATI chip set) where I have a multi-monitor set up but under CentOS the monitors come up as expected but under FreeBSD there is some kind of weird video-line overlap across the monitors. As far as I can tell the xorg.conf is similar but the X code under CentOS is versions ahead of FBSD even with WITH_NEW_XORG defined but I suspect that isn't the real problem though hand patching the code does have some impact. It also appears the FBSD kernel is lacking in some areas but I'm unsure (and doubt) that is the real problem. What should I be looking at in terms of configuration/code/etc such that multi-monitor behave as expected under FBSD? Also, I need to update some cards and I'm looking for a up-to-date card that supports multi-monitor under FreeBSD. Most of my cards are old but work well however I now have "purchasing criteria" (i.e., have to purchase new and from a supported supplier, not used from Amazon or eBay). Any recommended multi-monitor card you know works?