[clug] 2 Monitors - Advice

[Brad Hards]

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On Mon, 26 May 2003 14:15 pm, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> Also lots of software doesn't like to play nice with Xinerama .. for
> example some window managers will simply segfault when you maximise
> a window as the screen dimensions they're given are ... dumb.  If you
> like to limit yourself to Xinerama-aware software, by all means use
> Xinerama while the rest of us get on with real work ;)  The only
> practical difference between the two is that Xinerama lets you easily
> move windows between the monitors.  I think there's a few hacks
One particular problem is that you almost always lose hardware acceleration 
with Xinerama.  AFAICT, only the NVIDIA non-GPL driver can avoid this, 
because the hardware and driver supports dual head from a single framebuffer.

I've previously run Xinerama from a Matrox G400 combo (three heads), but if 
anyone knows how to get a i830 into Xinerama mode, I'd be very keen to talk / 
buy you pizza.

Brad
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