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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
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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