On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:08:02 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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On Sunday, 19 September 2004 at 20:20:08 +0545, Dr. Sichendra Bista wrote:
I would love to explore if there are some people around who are
working on or created multihead consoles in FreeBSD as stated at
http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead or http://startx.times.lv. (Please
visit the links before
Well, it would be good to say what people might find there. They
might be reading mail offline.
I have successfully created one with FC1 Linux, but would love to
know if there are someone in the BSD world. (I am thinking of
migrating to BSD)!
I'm writing this from in front of seven displays. See
http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html for an older photo with only
five monitors, also with a description of how I did it. I have these
displays spread across four machines, one of them a laptop, while the
one at http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead is on a single machine.
That's not an issue, though: if that's what you want to do, it would
work equally well on one machine.
Note also that you don't need four video cards for this configuration.
The cards they're using come in dual-head versions, so two would be
enough.
One big difference between the configuration you describe and mine is
that mine only needs one keyboard and mouse. I consider this a great
advantage. If you really want separate keyboards, I suppose it would
be possible, though I haven't investigated.
Thank you Greg, and I enjoyed visitng your site. Actually, I am
thinking of a low-cost but stable FreeBSD MULTIHEAD CONSOLES, not just
multihead which is already supported by XFree86 4.3.x as well as
X.org. And such consoles are peculiarly important in the
resouce-constraint developing world! And dual-head VGA's are very
expensive in my part of the world and also not readily available. Most
importantly, I am using nVIDIA GeForce MX 4000 with old S3 Virge/DX (I
am interested to explore if there is any possibility that they want to
discard their old machines in which such old PCI cards reside)
I am searching for any knowhow how one can hack the BSD kernel? I know
the configuration of XFree86. Actually, while creating such a
multihead in Linux, we need to hack the kernel with a patch and then
reconfigure some other devices like X server, sound and DMs!
Actually, I tried to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 with bootable CD (iso
image), I was amazed that it could not detect my hard drives though
the BIOS settings and all other settings are intact. It reaches upto
the HDD selection option and what happens is it just says that no HDD
could be detected, though I have got two HDDs (Maxtor 40GB and Seagate
80GB. I want to install FreeBSD in 80GB partition.)
I have already created 16 partitions at par with the linux partition
scheme. In which I would love to allocate /dev/hdb1 as /boot,
/dev/hdb7 as /, /dev/hdb10 as /var and /dev/hdb13 as /usr. I want to
explore if I could share /dev/hdb5 (swap), /dev/hdb6 (/tmp) and
/dev/hdb16 (/home) with my FC1 and other linux distros?
If you want to follow up on the technical aspects of this sort of
thing, [EMAIL PROTECTED] might be a better mailing list.
I shall als
Greg
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