Re: triple monitor hardware setup on FBSD - suggestions needed...
On 01/01/05 11:08 PM, Eric Kjeldergaard sat at the `puter and typed: I am currently running a triple-monitor setup under winXP, with an extended desktop that stretches across all three monitors. I like it. I would, however, like to use FreeBSD. Good choice :) So, first off, what hardware (video card) comes to mind for doing triple screens with FreeBSD ? A matrox P750 comes to mind, but when you run it with three screens, they downgrade to 1280x1024, which is bad. I am happy to consider multiple video cards to accomplish this ... at the very least I need 1600x1200 out of each card, preferably 1920x1200 ... Well, as far as hardware goes for my tri-monitor, I usually have a Radeon 7500 and an geforce2 mx400 (or some other cruddy pci card) though I'm using a matrox G450 for the primary right now. Really, any combination of supported video cards will work about equally well. Second, what is the support for something like this in XFree86, or x.org ? What I am really looking for is the ability to create virtually sized screens - so instead of having three total (physical) screens that I can maximize windows inside of, I want to split each physical screen in half for a total of 6 virtual screens - so there are six total areas within which I can maximize a window in ... this is something I am really trying to accomplish. I think you'll get this through the window manager. I'm only running two monitors with the Xinerama extensions (Xorg) but I use fvwm as my window manager. Just define your desktop to be a 1X2 area, and you'll have 2 screens for each monitor. I use 3X2, so I have 3 screens for each monitor. You can even use the pager to define multiple desktops, all using the same geography. If you want each screen to scroll individually of the others, meaning changing the screen on one monitor doesn't change the screen on the others, I'm not sure that's possible. Think of the monitors as a 3 paned window onto the desktop, and everything makes sense. Good luck. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: triple monitor hardware setup on FBSD - suggestions needed...
I am currently running a triple-monitor setup under winXP, with an extended desktop that stretches across all three monitors. I like it. I would, however, like to use FreeBSD. Good choice :) So, first off, what hardware (video card) comes to mind for doing triple screens with FreeBSD ? A matrox P750 comes to mind, but when you run it with three screens, they downgrade to 1280x1024, which is bad. I am happy to consider multiple video cards to accomplish this ... at the very least I need 1600x1200 out of each card, preferably 1920x1200 ... Well, as far as hardware goes for my tri-monitor, I usually have a Radeon 7500 and an geforce2 mx400 (or some other cruddy pci card) though I'm using a matrox G450 for the primary right now. Really, any combination of supported video cards will work about equally well. Second, what is the support for something like this in XFree86, or x.org ? What I am really looking for is the ability to create virtually sized screens - so instead of having three total (physical) screens that I can maximize windows inside of, I want to split each physical screen in half for a total of 6 virtual screens - so there are six total areas within which I can maximize a window in ... this is something I am really trying to accomplish. I'd like to say that this is a trivial thing to do, but I kind of doubt that it is. I know of no easy way to do this because X as it is now, assigns a head to a screen (where by head I mean a video card output) and in doing so, makes the head atomic in a sense. What it sounds like you'd like to do is create something smaller than this and assign it to a screen. It might be substantially easier to just purchase more monitors or learn to use virtual desktops. Good luck finding something that suits you :) -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: triple monitor hardware setup on FBSD - suggestions needed...
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:45:49 -0800 (PST) Joe Schmoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently running a triple-monitor setup under winXP, with an extended desktop that stretches across all three monitors. I like it. I would, however, like to use FreeBSD. So, first off, what hardware (video card) comes to mind for doing triple screens with FreeBSD ? A matrox P750 comes to mind, but when you run it with three screens, they downgrade to 1280x1024, which is bad. I am happy to consider multiple video cards to accomplish this ... at the very least I need 1600x1200 out of each card, preferably 1920x1200 ... You can run as many as the motherboard and powersupply will allow for ^_^ Second, what is the support for something like this in XFree86, or x.org ? Really nice for cards that support it. I personally would suggest looking at nvidia cards. What I am really looking for is the ability to create virtually sized screens - so instead of having three total (physical) screens that I can maximize windows inside of, I want to split each physical screen in half for a total of 6 virtual screens - so there are six total areas within which I can maximize a window in ... this is something I am really trying to accomplish. I am a little lost on what you mean by virtual screen. But what you want is xinerama and a window manager that nicely supports it. Fluxbox last I checked did it nicely. Any ways, window placement and maximization and the like are a job of the window manager, not the X server. I eventually got annoyed with the xinerama part and went back to just letting them act like three seperate screens. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: triple monitor hardware setup on FBSD - suggestions needed...
On Saturday, 25 December 2004 at 17:45:49 -0800, Joe Schmoe wrote: I am currently running a triple-monitor setup under winXP, with an extended desktop that stretches across all three monitors. I like it. I would, however, like to use FreeBSD. So, first off, what hardware (video card) comes to mind for doing triple screens with FreeBSD ? A matrox P750 comes to mind, but when you run it with three screens, they downgrade to 1280x1024, which is bad. I am happy to consider multiple video cards to accomplish this ... at the very least I need 1600x1200 out of each card, preferably 1920x1200 ... You're not limited to a single video card under FreeBSD. Second, what is the support for something like this in XFree86, or x.org ? Good. What I am really looking for is the ability to create virtually sized screens - so instead of having three total (physical) screens that I can maximize windows inside of, I want to split each physical screen in half for a total of 6 virtual screens - so there are six total areas within which I can maximize a window in ... this is something I am really trying to accomplish. I don't know how you'd do that (nor why you would want to). X offers a feature called Xinerama which does the opposite: it treats all screens as part of one big screen. The disadvantage here is that all the screens should have the same resolution. From experience, you can't do everything with 2048x1536 screens: too much software (especially from the Microsoft space, or free software which tries to emulate it) can't handle this kind of resolution. For example, web browsing on such screens is a pain: either the fonts are miniscule, or half the (broken) web sites that you browse completely break their formatting. I'm currently running a setup with 8 displays spread over 5 machines. One of them has three displays. Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html, which is a little out of date (I'm now running x.org, and I now have more screens), but it gives an idea of the kind of things you can do. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpvJ0z3QA88F.pgp Description: PGP signature
