From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 29 7:21:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-in-02.piro.net (mail-out-01.piro.net [194.64.31.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1075E37B423 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 07:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nil.science-factory.com (ScienceFactory-atm1-153.piro.net [195.135.137.205]) by mail-in-02.piro.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/PN-991208) with ESMTP id QAA23884; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:21:31 +0200 Received: by nil.science-factory.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 1BC431E6A; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:19:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc van Woerkom To: fabienderudder@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (fabienderudder@hotmail.com) Subject: Re: two graphic boards on the same computer References: Message-Id: <20000829141923.1BC431E6A@nil.science-factory.com> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:19:23 +0200 (CEST) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > DOes anyone know how to setup two graphic boards on the same computer, > running different apps on the two displays ? I didn't find any relevant > information in the XF86 doc, so if someone has some experience or doc > concerning that kind of things... I have not done that, but as far as I remember it is possible. This is roughly how it is likely to work: You will have two display environment variable settings, let's say DISPLAY=:0.0 in one shell and DISPLAY=:1.0 (or was it :0.0 and :0.1? :) in another. Then you will have not only to start the usual XServer at :0.0 but a second one for the :0.1 display. Let's try it for fun with one graphics card: X :1 & You should now run a second X server. On this box here I can switch with Alt-F7 and Alt-F8 between both X11 servers (the exact keys depend on your /etc/ttys or so terminal settings file) Now on the old display hack this into a sh or bash shell export DISPLAY=:1 xterm This means you route all X11 output from that session to the new display 1 and then open an xterm there. Switch to your new X server and you will have a xterm there. What you now need to achieve is to start/assign the two servers to the two cards, instead of one. This should be possible by some command line option. I assume also that you might define a second card and eventually a second monitor in your XF86config. Anyway, it is likely that one of the guys here with a running two or three card configiration (Greg?) will answer this for you.. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message