dual monitors?

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Wed, 9 May 2007, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> On Tuesday,  8 May 2007 at 18:15:52 -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote:
>> anyone out there running dual monitors in FreeBSD?
>
> Yes.
>
>> if so, what is your setup?  single display adapter/2 heads, or 2
>> seperate adapters?
>
> I'm using separate adaptors.  Take a look at
> http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html for more details.
>
>> 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.
>
> X.org is getting better at this all the time.  You have a good chance
> that it will run first time, even without a config file.
>
> Greg

You will have to specify the screen layout properly though in your xorg.conf.
-Garrett