triple monitor hardware setup on FBSD - suggestions needed...
Eric Kjeldergaard
kjelderg at gmail.com
Sat Jan 1 21:08:29 PST 2005
> I am currently running a triple-monitor setup under
> winXP, with an extended desktop that stretches across
> all three monitors. I like it.
>
> I would, however, like to use FreeBSD.
Good choice :)
> So, first off, what hardware (video card) comes to
> mind for doing triple screens with FreeBSD ? A matrox
> P750 comes to mind, but when you run it with three
> screens, they downgrade to 1280x1024, which is bad. I
> am happy to consider multiple video cards to
> accomplish this ... at the very least I need 1600x1200
> out of each card, preferably 1920x1200 ...
Well, as far as hardware goes for my tri-monitor, I usually have a
Radeon 7500 and an geforce2 mx400 (or some other cruddy pci card)
though I'm using a matrox G450 for the primary right now. Really, any
combination of supported video cards will work about equally well.
> Second, what is the support for something like this in
> XFree86, or x.org ? What I am really looking for is
> the ability to create virtually sized screens - so
> instead of having three total (physical) screens that
> I can maximize windows inside of, I want to split each
> physical screen in half for a total of 6 virtual
> screens - so there are six total areas within which I
> can maximize a window in ... this is something I am
> really trying to accomplish.
I'd like to say that this is a trivial thing to do, but I kind of
doubt that it is. I know of no easy way to do this because X as it is
now, assigns a "head" to a screen (where by head I mean a video card
output) and in doing so, makes the "head" atomic in a sense. What it
sounds like you'd like to do is create something smaller than this and
assign it to a screen. It might be substantially easier to just
purchase more monitors or learn to use virtual desktops. Good luck
finding something that suits you :)
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