Re: Dual monitor setup
Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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On Wednesday, 29 December 2004 at 13:17:26 -0800, Michael Collette wrote:
> Running up a brand new IBM T42 (2373-CXU) laptop here, that FreeBSD seems to
> love being on. Can't say enough about how far things have come since the
> first time I tried FreeBSD on a laptop. Wow!
>
> Anyway, down to my last configuration battle. I'm trying to get a dual
> monitor setup going with this box using the built in monitor to sit along
> side an external monitor. I've got this working great on a desktop machine,
> and I tried it out on this laptop with Windows... just before deleting it
> entirely off this hard drive.
>
> I found a couple of references out on the net covering this subject, but most
> all of them were using the Linux ATI drivers. Tried working with what came
> with xorg's drivers, but all I could seem to get was fuzziness on the
> external monitor. Never got close to having X recognize both displays as a
> single desktop.
>
> Wondering if anyone out there has had any luck with this? If so, could you
> post your XF86Config?
Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html, which is a
little out of date. Probably, though, this won't help you much. If
you've got as far as you have and it's not looking right, it'll be a
more subtle problem. Basically, X -configure should work.
Greg
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Joshua Tinnin
> Running up a brand new IBM T42 (2373-CXU) laptop here, that FreeBSD
> seems to love being on. Can't say enough about how far things have
> come since the first time I tried FreeBSD on a laptop. Wow!
>
> Anyway, down to my last configuration battle. I'm trying to get a
> dual monitor setup going with this box using the built in monitor to
> sit along side an external monitor. I've got this working great on a
> desktop machine, and I tried it out on this laptop with Windows...
> just before deleting it entirely off this hard drive.
>
> I found a couple of references out on the net covering this subject,
> but most all of them were using the Linux ATI drivers. Tried working
> with what came with xorg's drivers, but all I could seem to get was
> fuzziness on the external monitor. Never got close to having X
> recognize both displays as a single desktop.
>
> Wondering if anyone out there has had any luck with this? If so,
> could you post your XF86Config?
>
> 9600 video cards? I kinda had some of the OpenGL screen savers
> working until I upgraded to the latest xorg here. Now any OpenGL
> that launches dumps core.
ATI cards from 9200 onward are problematic as far as hardware
acceleration, as from that point on ATI only released binary drivers
(they do support Linux but not FreeBSD), and they don't release their
specs. They will generally work for basic 2D pretty well, though
certainly not as fast as it would if all the memory were being used. I
have an ATI 9600XP that used to work (poorly) with FreeBSD 5.3 and
OpenGL, but I had the same experience as you, in that upgrading somehow
broke that and now it dumps core. But I don't really use FreeBSD for 3D
stuff, otherwise I'd probably buy an nVidia. I bought the card to play
Windows games, so I keep Win around on a separate partition if I want
to do that. It works fine for my needs as it is; YMMV.
- jt
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Clive Lin
> Wondering if anyone out there has had any luck with this? If so, could you
> post your XF86Config?
Hi,
http://wiki.bsdchat.com/attach?page=Evilc.X31%2Fxorg.conf
This works on xorg before 6.8. (so I reverted my xorg port back to
old versions..)
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