From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 20 05:27:05 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 18AE416A469 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:27:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A5A13C447 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:27:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so151244pyi for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:27:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=i4D32Sj/AGMxkdo4zYWWcmxDuhAXAx+ZbN3LVvw6y8fDtr6/xFgLvtDQJkRHvEzAkR6h1i0wY7L9pmcweWAH6ww1cXyu0Mw1BmrghyXFm9ZM2f19P4pnSDG4/7pUdIL133cSEjGZn0xwAoWLRb3Wug+x+9sRB7HnXb9LT93Q1UY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=e3SPSw+O3qc73IObdACG5xQZGVf4CJCQnWGqOoPe/5TAo7B7kjY1uiEAh5rJtIMzCCTVexcQST239YMNCdF8RpyZjTdxuvoSlnuDmrxhbzV8/AaYBRNBreVf/rGSHC6vy+CQQ5ZIFjcUugN95N1TiPbKiD2WLwmLl5ktLhcp6yY= Received: by 10.65.105.3 with SMTP id h3mr761032qbm.1182317221202; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:27:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.194.5 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:27:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:27:01 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" Sender: infofarmer@gmail.com To: "Garrett Cooper" In-Reply-To: <4678B343.8000802@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4678B343.8000802@u.washington.edu> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4ec1241770c3fedc Cc: "Adam St. George" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi Monitors (More Than Two) 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, 20 Jun 2007 05:27:05 -0000 On 6/20/07, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Adam St. George wrote: > > Will FreeBSD be able to have a setup for 16 monitors? Id love to finaly, > > and fully switch to FreeBSD from Microsoft, but two things hold me back. > > 1. Multi monitors > > 2. Using/configuring Wine > > If I can have a setup with 16 monitors, are there any threads, or > > websites > > which could help me to do so? I will be using Quadro Nvidia cards (4). > > > > Thanks in advance. > > 1. SLI support and Crossfire support don't exist in Unix. How can you > possibly setup 16 monitors? Even with splitters, it's not possible > (unless you use PCI cards). I'm not sure about SLI and Crossfire, but I'm sure that Unix doesn't really need them to support that many monitors. Whether you use one Xorg instance or multiple ones, you can certainly use 16 monitors. The only issue could be nvidia's binary drivers, but I hope they support their Quadro's. Search for words like "Xinerama" and "multiheading" > 2. Wine has plenty of Howto's all over the net. Linux has better support for wine, but FreeBSD is not far behind. E.g. many people are running 3D games under wine in FreeBSD. Internet Explorer is happily running on PC- BSD, which means it won't have much trouble on FreeBSD. Cheers!