Dual monitors ok, but no mouse and keyboard action on the slave screen

2012-04-22 Thread Kenneth Hatteland
I`ve gotten a 17 inch monitor in addition to my 22 inch working with 2 separate desktops. I plan to have stuff like wireshark etc on the smallest. But I have a problem, I can get no work done since I have no mouse or keyboard working on the 17... Anyone have somewhere with a solution to point

Re: Dual monitors ok, but no mouse and keyboard action on the slave screen

2012-04-22 Thread Polytropon
, CRT depending on your actual connection setup. You can find more inspiration here: Dual head issues, non-xinerama setup possible? http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11567 Dual monitor setup http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2005-January/005613.html Dual monitors

Re: Dual monitors ok, but no mouse and keyboard action on the slave screen

2012-04-22 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:43:31 +0200, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: I`ve gotten a 17 inch monitor in addition to my 22 inch working with 2 separate desktops. I plan to have stuff like wireshark etc on the smallest. But I have a problem, I can get no work done

Re: dual monitors?

2007-05-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 19:17 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On May 8, 2007 6:15:52 PM -0500 Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: dual monitors?

2007-05-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:17:45PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: 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

dual monitors?

2007-05-08 Thread Jonathan Horne
anyone out there running dual monitors in FreeBSD? if so, what is your setup? single display adapter/2 heads, or 2 seperate adapters? 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

Re: dual monitors?

2007-05-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 8 May 2007 at 18:15:52 -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: anyone out there running dual monitors in FreeBSD? Yes. if so, what is your setup? single display adapter/2 heads, or 2 seperate adapters? I'm using separate adaptors. Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html

Re: dual monitors?

2007-05-08 Thread Bruce Holmes
. Regards, Bruce On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:15 -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: anyone out there running dual monitors in FreeBSD? if so, what is your setup? single display adapter/2 heads, or 2 seperate adapters? i have a nvidia 7300 GS with 2 heads, and im thinking about picking up another

Re: dual monitors?

2007-05-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On May 8, 2007 6:15:52 PM -0500 Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: dual monitors?

2007-05-08 Thread youshi10
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 8 May 2007 at 18:15:52 -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: anyone out there running dual monitors in FreeBSD? Yes. if so, what is your setup? single display adapter/2 heads, or 2 seperate adapters? I'm using separate adaptors. Take

Re: dual monitors?

2007-05-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 8 May 2007 at 17:22:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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:

Re: dual monitors

2007-02-25 Thread John Nielsen
and monitor, which is fine. However, when I get into KDE it only outputs to my 17 monitor. I really just want it to output to the TV, but dual monitors would be nice also. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Eric Oh yea forgot to post the xorg.xonf file, here it is. Also I

dual monitors

2007-02-24 Thread Eric Stringer
it only outputs to my 17 monitor. I really just want it to output to the TV, but dual monitors would be nice also. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

dual monitors

2007-02-24 Thread Eric Stringer
it only outputs to my 17 monitor. I really just want it to output to the TV, but dual monitors would be nice also. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Eric Oh yea forgot to post the xorg.xonf file, here it is. Also I have Xorg 6.9.0. Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org

Re: dual monitors

2007-02-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
You probably need to ask on one of the xorg mailing lists since this is an X thing, not a FreeBSD thing. Ted - Original Message - From: Eric Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:55 PM Subject: dual monitors I've got FreeBSD

Problems with xorg dual monitors

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Schmehl
Since the recent upgrades, which included both gnome and xorg upgrades, I have been unable to run dual monitors in xinerama mode. Cloned monitors works fine, but when I try to display in xinerama mode, the box locks up hard after login, and only a hard reboot will restore functionality. I

Re: Problems with xorg dual monitors

2006-03-15 Thread Frank Jahnke
Paul, Xinerama using Xorg 6.9 on FreeBSD 6.0 works fine for me. I'm using dual CRTs and a Matrox G450, which is fine once you remove the (nonfunctioning) HAL layer that 6.9 includes as part of the out-of-the-box set-up. Frank ___

Re: Problems with xorg dual monitors

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, March 15, 2006 13:00:18 -0800 Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, Xinerama using Xorg 6.9 on FreeBSD 6.0 works fine for me. I'm using dual CRTs and a Matrox G450, which is fine once you remove the (nonfunctioning) HAL layer that 6.9 includes as part of the

Re: Problems with xorg dual monitors

2006-03-15 Thread Frank Jahnke
Xinerama using Xorg 6.9 on FreeBSD 6.0 works fine for me. I'm using dual CRTs and a Matrox G450, which is fine once you remove the (nonfunctioning) HAL layer that 6.9 includes as part of the out-of-the-box set-up. How do you get rid of the HAL layer? That's a Matrox-specific feature. It is

Re: Dual monitors - right one doesn't work right away

2005-05-21 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, May 20, 2005 10:27 PM -0700 pete wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/20/05, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed 5.4 RELEASE, cvsup'd the ports and portupgraded everything to current. I'm using one ATI Radeon X300 card and two monitors with Xinerama. When I

Dual monitors - right one doesn't work right away

2005-05-20 Thread Paul Schmehl
I just installed 5.4 RELEASE, cvsup'd the ports and portupgraded everything to current. I'm using one ATI Radeon X300 card and two monitors with Xinerama. When I first login, only the left screen displays its half of the desktop. (I'm using gdm and gnome, but xdm with twm does the exact

Re: Dual monitors - right one doesn't work right away

2005-05-20 Thread pete wright
On 5/20/05, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed 5.4 RELEASE, cvsup'd the ports and portupgraded everything to current. I'm using one ATI Radeon X300 card and two monitors with Xinerama. When I first login, only the left screen displays its half of the desktop. (I'm using

Re: Dual monitors xorg.conf

2005-05-19 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, May 18, 2005 05:32:18 PM -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now have both monitors displaying, but they are clones of each other. IOW, two monitors displaying the same desktop. I still haven't been able to get one desktop to display across both monitors. (BTW, I

Re: Dual monitors xorg.conf

2005-05-19 Thread Michael L. Squires
I have Xinerama working with two HP P1110 monitors and a single Matrox G450 dual-head card. The only problem I have is that the system dual-boots MS Windows XP Pro and if I don't do a cold reboot after running XP I sometimes get artifacts (for example, the borders around Firefox running under

Dual monitors don't work

2005-05-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 with Xorg 6.8.2, and I've been trying to get dual monitors to work with Xinerama. I'm pretty sure I've gotten everything right in the xorg.conf file, and the left monitor works fine (looks really good too.) I *think* the problem is permissions. When I look at the Xorg

Dual monitors xorg.conf

2005-05-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
A list member emailed me privately and asked me to post my xorg.conf to the list. The only thing that doesn't work is the second monitor (see my previous post to the list.) Here it is: Section Module Loadtype1 Loadfreetype Load glx EndSection Section Files

Re: Dual monitors xorg.conf

2005-05-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, May 18, 2005 04:55:36 PM -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A list member emailed me privately and asked me to post my xorg.conf to the list. The only thing that doesn't work is the second monitor (see my previous post to the list.) I now have both monitors displaying,