On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:33:06 -0400 Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/20/04 08:09 PM, Peter Risdon sat at the `puter and typed: > > Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > On 10/20/04 01:40 PM, Michael Clark sat at the `puter and typed: > > > I dont have the computer here to post the config =( > > > > You need two screen sections, two monitor sections and two device > > sections in the X config file. > > > > If it helps, a working example follows: > > That helps a ton. Thank you *very* much. > > I'm still curious about my last question though. I suddenly > realized I'm not being entirely clear where there's room for > misinterpretation. > > I'm wondering at this point if I should go buy a second physical > video card to install into my tower. Not whether I should configure > in a second card section in the X config. Depends on the card... I know I can handle three device on my fx5200(2 dsub 15 and 1 svideo), with iirc them all being able to have seperates screens with out any of them being mirrored, but I would still say it would be best to check up on the specific model you have... I looked at this awhile back, covering dsub15 connectors not D/A DVI connectors. The problem I ran into was flaky info on this area. I was wanting to find a card that would run doom3 nicely and run dual monitor. I found I could easily have gotten a more powerful card than a fx5200 and dvi to dsub15 converter for the less than the price of a dual dsub15 fx5200. I got looking into it more and got lots of conflicting into. I found a massive lack of useful specs on the cards and chipsets... mainly in the area of what sort of DVI connector they have on them... wether it is DVI A or D... and wether it was going to be a mirror of the dsub connector or not. Among the older nvidia cards, from what I can tell, the DVI connector was generally just a mirror of the dsub15 connector. > I'm starting to think I won't, otherwise you'd probably have > mentioned a card section for each card, right? So the physical > hookup will have one monitor plugged into the standard video port, > and the second plugged into the DVI port via an adaptor. What > adaptor would I be using? See above :/ Looked into that when looking for a nice dual head card for my dual boot box... I decided it would just be simpler to get a card with two dsub15 connectors... >From a lot of googling I did back in july over this, I would not trust it unless their are either two DVI or dsub15 connectors :/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
