Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 19:17:45 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual monitors? Message-ID: <5AE7B3DD206320570E5568FA@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <200705081815.52180.freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <200705081815.52180.freebsd@dfwlp.com>
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--On May 8, 2007 6:15:52 PM -0500 Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> wrote:
> anyone out there running dual monitors in FreeBSD?
Of course.
> if so, what is your setup? single display adapter/2 heads, or 2
seperate adapters?
Single adaptor, two heads.
>
> i have a nvidia 7300 GS with 2 heads, and im thinking about picking up
> another monitor like im currently runing, before the *blip* off the
> market, but im hoping that it wont be a problem to set up xorg for 2
> monitors, with just a single adapter.
>
> any success stories out there?
I'm using ATI Radeon X300, but the setup was quite simple. One monitor
section. One device section. One screen section.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Radeon X300"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "MergedFB" "true"
Option "CRT2Position" "RightOf"
EndSection
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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