From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 00:43:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0187016A402 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 00:43:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1EA313C44B for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 00:43:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A97ADDE21; Wed, 9 May 2007 10:43:08 +1000 (EST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4BAE21A986F; Wed, 9 May 2007 10:13:08 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 10:13:08 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: youshi10@u.washington.edu Message-ID: <20070509004308.GG37972@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20070508234645.GF37972@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="64j1qyTOoGvYcHb1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual monitors? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:43:11 -0000 --64j1qyTOoGvYcHb1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 8 May 2007 at 17:22:15 -0700, youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote: > On Wed, 9 May 2007, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: If you follow up on something I wrote, please copy me. See http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for more details. >> On Tuesday, 8 May 2007 at 18:15:52 -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: >>> 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. >> >> X.org is getting better at this all the time. You have a good chance >> that it will run first time, even without a config file. > > You will have to specify the screen layout properly though in your > xorg.conf. My understanding is that if you don't specify a layout, X.org will choose one for you. If you're happy, that's fine. This is the same proviso as for many other configuration parameters, notably screen resolution. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --64j1qyTOoGvYcHb1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGQRkcIubykFB6QiMRAnL4AKCjnRxzAs/yPFbQZvwkfx3JOuL2QACgrmCJ 2NjAp8rAZbsgCzadLxgKJmk= =oPP5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --64j1qyTOoGvYcHb1--