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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD and dual head Monitors? Date: 28 Dec 1994 02:21:32 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3dqi3c$5f6@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3dq23o$7jt@adam.cc.sunysb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3dq23o$7jt@adam.cc.sunysb.edu>, Romolo Albuquerque <ralbuque@libws4.ic.sunysb.edu> wrote: |>Hi. I wanted to know if anyone has tryed to instal dual head monitors |>under FreeBSD. know that this can be done in Solaris O/S. You can |>drop in 2 video cards on the bus and have them respond to differents |>IRQ's and set up X-windows to take advantage of both monitors. You can |>configure your mouse to jump from one monitor to the nex when you move |>it outside the boundary of one of the monitors. It's great.. |> |>Can this be done in FreeBSD? Any help is greatly appreciated.. Yes, though you need to buy a commercial X server to do it (it's only $99 bucks). Send mail to info@xinside.com Jordan