Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted

1999-12-20 Thread Wes Peters
Chrisy Luke wrote: > > Wes Peters wrote (on Dec 16): > > Have you considered buying Metro-X? It supports up to 4 screens on just > > about any combination of AGP and PCI Matrox cards. For more information, > > see http://www.metrolink.com/productindex.html and look for Multi-Headed > > Display

Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted

1999-12-19 Thread Chrisy Luke
Wes Peters wrote (on Dec 16): > Have you considered buying Metro-X? It supports up to 4 screens on just > about any combination of AGP and PCI Matrox cards. For more information, > see http://www.metrolink.com/productindex.html and look for Multi-Headed > Display Support. Metro-X is only $39.

Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted

1999-12-16 Thread Mike Smith
> Reading the XFree86 docs, it seems almost all PCI cards are > supported multihead on Linux where they can issue an INT 10 > call to initialise the BIOS in the secondary card. > I'm not sure it we can support that in FreeBSD. We can. If you want to write the XFree86 code for it for FreeBSD, ple

Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted

1999-12-16 Thread splite
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 01:28:14PM +0100, Oyvind Moll wrote: > * Egervary Gergely > | > | > XFree86 was written to support one monitor per VGA chip > | > and cannot cope with 2 RAMDACs on one controller. > | > | ok then need to use pci cards. damn. > > Is it possible to use one AGP card and one

Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted

1999-12-16 Thread Wes Peters
Roger Hardiman wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to build some new Multi-Head FreeBSD machines > in my lab using XFree86 3.9.16. > > I want to know which VGA cards to buy > for Multi-Head (dual monitor) support. > > Currently I have 1 multi-head FreeBSD machine using > Matrox Millenium cards abd XFree

Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted

1999-12-16 Thread Roger Hardiman
Hi, > > The Dual-Head G400 (the one in a single AGP card) does not > > work with XFree86. > > > It works fine with XFree86 using only one monitor output. Sorry, I was unclear with my last statement. The Dual-Head G400 is cannot be used with XFree86 as a Dual-Head card, but is great for use with

Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted

1999-12-16 Thread mestery
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Roger Hardiman wrote: > The Dual-Head G400 (the one in a single AGP card) does not > work with XFree86. > It works fine with XFree86 using only one monitor output, however. It's a very nice card, even without the dual monitor support. -- Kyle Mestery| A

Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted

1999-12-16 Thread Oyvind Moll
* Egervary Gergely | | > XFree86 was written to support one monitor per VGA chip | > and cannot cope with 2 RAMDACs on one controller. | | ok then need to use pci cards. damn. Is it possible to use one AGP card and one PCI card together? (e.g. PCI Matrox Mill. I + AGP Matrox Mill. II) The releas

Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted

1999-12-16 Thread Egervary Gergely
> XFree86 was written to support one monitor per VGA chip > and cannot cope with 2 RAMDACs on one controller. ok then need to use pci cards. damn. -- mauzi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted

1999-12-16 Thread Roger Hardiman
> > I need to build some new Multi-Head FreeBSD machines > > in my lab using XFree86 3.9.16. > > > > I want to know which VGA cards to buy > > for Multi-Head (dual monitor) support. > > > matrox :) > > g200 / g400 > > you can buy dual-head cards, or use more than one card (pci only) The Dual-He

Re: Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted

1999-12-16 Thread Egervary Gergely
> I need to build some new Multi-Head FreeBSD machines > in my lab using XFree86 3.9.16. > > I want to know which VGA cards to buy > for Multi-Head (dual monitor) support. > > Currently I have 1 multi-head FreeBSD machine using > Matrox Millenium cards abd XFree86 3.9.16. > It works great, but y

Multi Head XFree86 VGA card recomendations wanted

1999-12-16 Thread Roger Hardiman
Hi, I need to build some new Multi-Head FreeBSD machines in my lab using XFree86 3.9.16. I want to know which VGA cards to buy for Multi-Head (dual monitor) support. Currently I have 1 multi-head FreeBSD machine using Matrox Millenium cards abd XFree86 3.9.16. It works great, but you cannot buy