Anyone using two monitors as extended desktop under FreeBSD??

[Jeronimo Calvo]

Great! I didn know that DVI was that clever!!! thats great news, as a
splitter for 6 is much cheaper than any other tool...

Well the HD7200... is a PCI-E card... (not sure if is 7200 but is from
HD7xxx series), with DVI.

2009/9/29 Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>:
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> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
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>>> Im thinking to get a second monitor to use with my 7.2 STABLE
>>> workstation and my ati card using the following splitter:
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>>> http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Peripherals/Cabling/HDMI%2FMonitor+Cables/DVI+Splitter+Cable+?productId=17127
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>> That looks like a simple splitter that will just send the same signal to
>> both monitors.  They would both display the same image, not an extended
>> desktop.
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> That's what I thought too prior to hooking it up and trying it.  Since then,
> I found DVI is able to detect separate output devices and send the
> appropriate signal to each device.
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>>
>>> There is someone currently using any config like this? In this case
>>> can you tell me a little bit about the experience?
>>>
>>> My current GUI is KDE 3.5, and the Graphic card is a ATI HD7200,
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>> HD2700, maybe built into a notebook?
>>
>> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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