Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-21 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:06:38 -0400 Frank Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Glick wrote: > > >>>Say bye bye to DRI/GLX if you decide to go multi-head. It > >>>wont work, thats the downside I suppose, otherwise its great. > >>> > >>> > > > >I beg to differ, it works fine. I used a G

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-21 Thread Frank Laszlo
Kevin Glick wrote: Say bye bye to DRI/GLX if you decide to go multi-head. It wont work, thats the downside I suppose, otherwise its great. I beg to differ, it works fine. I used a GeForce MX440, with dual VGA outputs to two 21" monitors, and ran many GL apps across both monitors. Quake 3

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:24:15 -0400 Frank Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thats the downside I suppose, otherwise its great. > And yes, i had mine setup with a AGP card and the other was onboard, > It worked like a charm. Hope this helps. Works on 5x :)

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:22:11 -0400 Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 20, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > What makes a dual headed card? > > The card needs to have two RAMDACs, and two HD-15 VGA or DVI > connectors. > > > My system invoice described the video card as f

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:33:06 -0400 Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/20/04 08:09 PM, Peter Risdon sat at the `puter and typed: > > Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > On 10/20/04 01:40 PM, Michael Clark sat at the `puter and typed: > > > I dont have the computer here to post the config =( >

RE: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Kevin Glick
> > Say bye bye to DRI/GLX if you decide to go multi-head. It > > wont work, thats the downside I suppose, otherwise its great. I beg to differ, it works fine. I used a GeForce MX440, with dual VGA outputs to two 21" monitors, and ran many GL apps across both monitors. Quake 3 at 3200x1200 is p

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread luke
you can always try an `X -configure` and see if the resulting xorg.conf has 2 sections for cards. if it does, you will be fine with a dvi to vga adapter. if not, you'll have to get another card. also, it will depend on your motherboard whether you need an agp or pci card. sometimes even if you have

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Robert Huff wrote: > Louis LeBlanc writes: > > >> Your config looks like I have to go shopping for another graphics >> card. >> >> Not sure if I can even get the same one now. > > > > Though they're not state-of-the-market, Matrox (with I hav

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Peter Risdon
Robert Huff wrote: > Louis LeBlanc writes: > > >> Your config looks like I have to go shopping for another graphics >> card. >> >> Not sure if I can even get the same one now. > > > > Though they're not state-of-the-market, Matrox (with I have > always had good results) made dual-headed cards b

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Peter Risdon
Frank Laszlo wrote: [...] >> >> > Say bye bye to DRI/GLX if you decide to go multi-head. It wont work, thats the downside I suppose, otherwise its great. I was under the impression that it won't work on both screens. But I think DRI does work on one. Hence the last bit of my X config: Section "

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed

2004-10-20 Thread Frank Jahnke
There are a number of ways to run dual monitors on FreeBSD, Leaving out the option of having the same desktop on each monitor (which is not very interesting), they are: Independent X sessions on each monitor. This gives you two totally independent screens, each with its own desktop. Advantages:

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Frank Laszlo
Louis LeBlanc wrote: What makes a dual headed card? My system invoice described the video card as follows: 128MB DDR GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI 128FX52 So, I have a TV-Out *and* DVI port on this card. I take it this isn't the same, and I won't get the expected results by pl

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Charles Swiger
On Oct 20, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Louis LeBlanc wrote: What makes a dual headed card? The card needs to have two RAMDACs, and two HD-15 VGA or DVI connectors. My system invoice described the video card as follows: 128MB DDR GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI 128FX52 So, I have a TV-Out *a

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Peter Giessel
On Wednesday, October 20, 2004, at 11:09AM, Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >Section "Device" > Identifier "Card0" [snip] > BusID "pci:1:0:0" > Screen 0 >EndSection > >Section "Device" > Identifier "Card1" [snip] > BusId "pci

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/20/04 03:49 PM, Robert Huff sat at the `puter and typed: > > Louis LeBlanc writes: > > > Your config looks like I have to go shopping for another graphics > > card. > > > > Not sure if I can even get the same one now. > > Though they're not state-of-the-market, Matrox (with I ha

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Robert Huff
Louis LeBlanc writes: > Your config looks like I have to go shopping for another graphics > card. > > Not sure if I can even get the same one now. Though they're not state-of-the-market, Matrox (with I have always had good results) made dual-headed cards based on the G400/450 series

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/20/04 03:33 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed: > On 10/20/04 08:09 PM, Peter Risdon sat at the `puter and typed: > > Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > On 10/20/04 01:40 PM, Michael Clark sat at the `puter and typed: > > > I dont have the computer here to post the config =( > > > > You n

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/20/04 08:09 PM, Peter Risdon sat at the `puter and typed: > Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > On 10/20/04 01:40 PM, Michael Clark sat at the `puter and typed: > > I dont have the computer here to post the config =( > > You need two screen sections, two monitor sections and two device > sections in t

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Peter Risdon
Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 10/20/04 01:40 PM, Michael Clark sat at the `puter and typed: I dont have the computer here to post the config =( You need two screen sections, two monitor sections and two device sections in the X config file. If it helps, a working example follows: # less /etc/X11/XF86Co

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/20/04 01:40 PM, Michael Clark sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > Searching the archives for "dual monitor" came up empty. > > XFree86 supported this, am I am sure Xorg does as well. You just have > to make some changes to the configuration and compile with Xinerama > support. I ran this

RE: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Michael Clark
> -Original Message- > From: Louis LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 1:32 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed? > > > Hey everyone. > > I'm considering an addition to the d

Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey everyone. I'm considering an addition to the desktop. Namely a second monitor to set up a two faced system. Maybe it's really a two headed system? Either way, it was real easy to talk the boss (read wife) into it. I just mentioned that I was considering one of two things: A new laptop or