Hi, two questions:
I would like to build a system that can display Gem rendering on 4 monitors (or 4 tvs). Does anyone have experience with this? I have seen Quake being run on 4 monitors. What hardware would I need to acheive this? In XP, I just tested running two versions of Gem and PD and it seems it works, so I might be able to render tw Gemwins each covering two windows.
I would want the quad display under Linux and XP. Anybody have an idea?
Tom
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Thomas O Fredericks wrote:
I would like to build a system that can display Gem rendering on 4 monitors (or 4 tvs). Does anyone have experience with this? I have seen Quake being run on 4 monitors. What hardware would I need to acheive this? In XP, I just tested running two versions of Gem and PD and it seems it works, so I might be able to render tw Gemwins each covering two windows. I would want the quad display under Linux and XP. Anybody have an idea?
I have a related question. Is it possible to use both the AGP card and the on-board video? My question only applies to XFree86 and XOrg display servers though. It would be a matter of explicitly stating the PCI channel number of both cards, and IIRC both AGP and on-board video count as PCI channels (no?).
I've used some computers like that but the ones I have now don't have on-board video.
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On Friday 17 June 2005 23:26, Thomas O Fredericks wrote:
I would want the quad display under Linux and XP. Anybody have an idea?
Tom
The biggest problem is finding a way to have hardware accelleration on all 4 monitors. There are a few quad monitor cards that can do that, but they are expensive and they may need a commercial X-server. You might be able to use two PCIe cards and configure those. Also expensive if you have to buy a new motherboard with dual pci-express slots. And I don't know if it will work :)
It is probably easier to get 2 cheap dualhead cards in two cheap pc's and use OSC or netsend to connect the two. Although finding dualhead cards that will do openGL on both heads is maybe not so easy after all.
Gerard
Hi,
Some cards -radeon, e.g.- support the MergeFB extension of the X server. It allows to have multiple head configurations with DRI enabled.
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/MergedFB
That should work also for Georg. Bests, abelardo
El Sábado, 18 de Junio de 2005 12:32, vanDongen/Gilcher escribió:
On Friday 17 June 2005 23:26, Thomas O Fredericks wrote:
I would want the quad display under Linux and XP. Anybody have an idea?
Tom
The biggest problem is finding a way to have hardware accelleration on all 4 monitors. There are a few quad monitor cards that can do that, but they are expensive and they may need a commercial X-server. You might be able to use two PCIe cards and configure those. Also expensive if you have to buy a new motherboard with dual pci-express slots. And I don't know if it will work :)
It is probably easier to get 2 cheap dualhead cards in two cheap pc's and use OSC or netsend to connect the two. Although finding dualhead cards that will do openGL on both heads is maybe not so easy after all.
Gerard
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Hallo!
Some cards -radeon, e.g.- support the MergeFB extension of the X server. It allows to have multiple head configurations with DRI enabled.
Thanks, I'll try it ...
LG Georg
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