[Tfug] Multiple monitors

Fri Aug 10 16:59:43 MST 2007

You must edit your xorg.conf file!

Refer to chapter 5 of the Handbook
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html
to get basic knowledge. You have to have the hardware specifications of your
monitors. This is well documented procedure
and I have done with 2 monitors of the different vendors and sizes
also look FAQ
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html  .
The following forums might be very useful. Read forums before you post a
question. The problems might
have been solved already so people will ignore you.
http://www.bsdforums.org/
http://forums.bsdnexus.com/
http://forums.pcbsd.org/ (You should be using this one big time! Most people
how are asking questions are Windows converts)
http://www.desktopbsd.net/forums/

This is FreeBSD mailing list. People are EXTREMELY serious so they might
ignore the questions if they think it is well-documented
archive http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-questions.html to ask a
question send a mail to
freebsd-quesionts at freebsd.org. These are the people who developed FreeBSD.

The following are useful tutorials

http://www.freebsddiary.org/
http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/
http://freebsd.rambler.ru/
http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/
http://www.bsdguides.org/
http://www.daemonnews.org/

I think this is enough for beginning.

And one correction. I said previously that FreeBSD has a problem with the
flush 7 which freezes
but there are five other alternatives for lovers of YouTube.
1. Easiest snap the video with youtube-dl program and play with MPlayer or
VLM players (compiled from ports) you need also win32-codecs-3.1.0.r1,1
refer to Handbook about installation.
2. Use clive  the same as youtube-dl but works for YouTube and Google Video
and converts the files to MP4
3. Use swfdec from ports (update first since you need the one released 6th
of Avgust) still in experimental phase.
4. Use Gnash (Google to see how)
5. Use adds on to your Firefox web browser (I have never had success with
this)
Predrag

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Warburton" <hl2addict at gmail.com>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 15:46
Subject: [Tfug] Multiple monitors

> Hi everyone. Does anybody have expierence with multiple monitors? I have
> four monitors I had running flawlessly under Windows XP and even Vista,
but
> I cant seem to do it under PCBSD. The best I am able to do is get two
> running (the two attached to my primary video card), but when this
happens,
> the second monitor is a clone of the first AND Beryl is disabled. With one
> monitor, everything runs perfectly.
>
> Would changing my gf.conf file to this:
>
>
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Xinerama"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> Screen 1 "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
> Option "Xinerama" "On"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hebrew/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/vietnamese/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/indic/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/AAHS"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/AGA"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/FS"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/Kasr"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/MCS"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ae_fonts1/Shmookh"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "record"
> Load "xtrap"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "type1"
> Load "glx"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "Auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "keyboard"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Compaq"
> ModelName "P920"
> HorizSync 31.5 - 81.0
> VertRefresh 56.2 - 76.0
> Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor1"
> VendorName "Dell"
> ModelName "Trinitron (I will find the exact model number for this
monitor)"
> HorizSync 31.5 - 81.0
> VertRefresh 56.2 - 76.0
> Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
> BoardName "GeForce 7900GT/GTO"
> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card1"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
> BoardName "7900 GT/GTO"
> BusID "PCI:6:0:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Card0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes  "2560x1600" "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen1"
> Device "Card1"
> Monitor "Monitor1"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "2560x1600" "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
>
> Help get at least two monitors working independantly of each other?
> I have two 7900 GTOs each sitting on a full PCI X16 pipe, even when SLI is
> enabled. Since I can only enable monitors connected to the first card,
would
> removing the physical SLI connector (a small bridge that attaches to each
> video card) help any? Thanks a lot!
>      Sean
>
> -- 
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