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Date:      Fri, 25 May 2001 14:23:38 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Jason Halbert <res02jw5@gte.net>
Cc:        Robert Myers <ccrider@whiterose.net>, fish@webaid.nu, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple monitors
Message-ID:  <20010525142338.N26315@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <BGEMLPNNHJHKCPDPBMGGIEBKCBAA.res02jw5@gte.net>; from res02jw5@gte.net on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:50:07PM -0500
References:  <000001c0e4be$b6d7f7a0$4bbefea9@ccrider2k> <BGEMLPNNHJHKCPDPBMGGIEBKCBAA.res02jw5@gte.net>

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On  Wednesday, May 23, 2001 1:49 PM, fish@webaid.nu wrote:
> On  Thursday, May 24, 2001 16:59, Robert Myers wrote:
>> On Thursday, 24 May 2001 at 21:50:07 -0500, Jason Halbert wrote:
>>>
>>> I feel I've tried to find this in your documentation but
>>> I can't find it. I have two monitors on two different
>>> cards installed, this works just fine in Win98 so I know
>>> it should work. I can see that FreeBSD finds my two
>>> cards just fine, but after that nothing happens. I
>>> though that perhaps I could add a console to my second
>>> screen in /etc/ttys but I didn't get that working
>>> either. Irritation enough I have a feeling I saw a FAQ
>>> about just this in my usr docs directory a couple of
>>> years ago. Please send me an address or anything from
>>> where I can solve this problem ! Thank you !
>>
>> Try searching on the XFree86.org website.
>>
>> I know that X supports multiple monitor setups.  I am not sure about
>> the
>> console, but I doubt it, it wouldn't
>> be any good for anything. :)
>
> Greg's site talks about multiple monitor support.  I can't remember
> the link to his site though.  Maybe someone else does.

I've discussed this in a number of places, including my diary, notably
on 26 January 2001 at
http://echunga.lemis.com/~grog/diary-jan2001.html

Greg
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