Re: leaving linux - questions about capabilities

2014-12-30 Thread Fred
On 12/30/14 03:45, Jonathan Gray wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 08:57:15PM +, Fred wrote: I currently have three monitors connected to my laptop but if I try to enable X on the third one I'm getting the following error: port:fred ~ xrandr --output VGA1 --auto xrandr: cannot find crtc for

Re: leaving linux - questions about capabilities

2014-12-30 Thread Rusty
On 12/29/14 08:17, Christopher Barry wrote: Greetings All, I've used OpenBSD in the past to build redundant routers and firewalls and it was fantastic, but it's been quite a few years since I've played with it. I've also never used it as my default workstation. Yet. I've always used Debian

Re: leaving linux - questions about capabilities

2014-12-30 Thread Christopher Barry
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:57:15 + Fred open...@crowsons.com wrote: On 12/29/14 17:45, Christopher Barry wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:29:15 -0800 Ryan Freeman r...@slipgate.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:17:55AM -0500, Christopher Barry wrote: Greetings All, I've used OpenBSD in

Re: leaving linux - questions about capabilities

2014-12-30 Thread Christopher Barry
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:19:12 -0800 Rusty rus...@outband.net wrote: On 12/29/14 08:17, Christopher Barry wrote: Greetings All, I've used OpenBSD in the past to build redundant routers and firewalls and it was fantastic, but it's been quite a few years since I've played with it. I've also

Re: leaving linux - questions about capabilities

2014-12-30 Thread Fred
On 12/30/14 21:08, Christopher Barry wrote: /snipped I currently have three monitors connected to my laptop but if I try to enable X on the third one I'm getting the following error: port:fred ~ xrandr --output VGA1 --auto xrandr: cannot find crtc for output VGA1 Thanks Fred. what happens

leaving linux - questions about capabilities

2014-12-29 Thread Christopher Barry
Greetings All, I've used OpenBSD in the past to build redundant routers and firewalls and it was fantastic, but it's been quite a few years since I've played with it. I've also never used it as my default workstation. Yet. I've always used Debian GNU/Linux on my workstations in the past, but

Re: leaving linux - questions about capabilities

2014-12-29 Thread Ryan Freeman
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:17:55AM -0500, Christopher Barry wrote: Greetings All, I've used OpenBSD in the past to build redundant routers and firewalls and it was fantastic, but it's been quite a few years since I've played with it. I've also never used it as my default workstation. Yet.

Re: leaving linux - questions about capabilities

2014-12-29 Thread Christopher Barry
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:29:15 -0800 Ryan Freeman r...@slipgate.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:17:55AM -0500, Christopher Barry wrote: Greetings All, I've used OpenBSD in the past to build redundant routers and firewalls and it was fantastic, but it's been quite a few years since I've

Re: leaving linux - questions about capabilities

2014-12-29 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 12:45:14PM -0500, Christopher Barry wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:29:15 -0800 Ryan Freeman r...@slipgate.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:17:55AM -0500, Christopher Barry wrote: Greetings All, I've used OpenBSD in the past to build redundant routers and

Re: leaving linux - questions about capabilities

2014-12-29 Thread Fred
On 12/29/14 17:45, Christopher Barry wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:29:15 -0800 Ryan Freeman r...@slipgate.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:17:55AM -0500, Christopher Barry wrote: Greetings All, I've used OpenBSD in the past to build redundant routers and firewalls and it was fantastic,

Re: leaving linux - questions about capabilities

2014-12-29 Thread Ryan Freeman
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 12:45:14PM -0500, Christopher Barry wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:29:15 -0800 Ryan Freeman r...@slipgate.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:17:55AM -0500, Christopher Barry wrote: Greetings All, I've used OpenBSD in the past to build redundant routers and

Re: leaving linux - questions about capabilities

2014-12-29 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 08:57:15PM +, Fred wrote: I currently have three monitors connected to my laptop but if I try to enable X on the third one I'm getting the following error: port:fred ~ xrandr --output VGA1 --auto xrandr: cannot find crtc for output VGA1 ... vga1 at pci0 dev 2

Re: leaving linux - questions about capabilities

2014-12-29 Thread Raf
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:45:48PM EST, Jonathan Gray wrote: Ivy bridge supports three outputs with two of them sharing a clock assuming the sytem has two displayport outputs (and none do?). All SFF and USFF Dell Optiplex desktop PCs in the 70x0 and 90x0 series[0] have 1 x VGA and 2 x