dual monitors?

[Paul Schmehl]

--On May 8, 2007 6:15:52 PM -0500 Jonathan Horne <freebsd at dfwlp.com> 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, and im thinking about picking up
> another  monitor like im currently runing, before the *blip* off the
> market, but im  hoping that it wont be a problem to set up xorg for 2
> monitors, with just a  single adapter.
>
> any success stories out there?

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
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "radeon"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "Radeon X300"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
        Option      "MergedFB" "true"
        Option      "CRT2Position" "RightOf"
EndSection

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/