I have a question about an odd setup--I just want to know a) if it is even possible b) if so, how difficult would it be (a few hours or several months) c) is there a better way of achieving an equivalent
My motivation: I recently acquired an SGI 1600SW lcd display at surplus. I lucked out and got a matching SGI 320 w/the output to drive it. However, I don't really need the 320 nor plan on using it, but would like to use the 1600SW on another system. (the 320 is a p2 450 vs my desktop--a dual p3 1400--no contest ;) There are two options for this: 1) buy the $500+ multilink hardware adapter to drive it 2) buy a <$100 older card that can drive it (there's about 3 models I think). The tradeoffs are for (1) I can use any video card I want, and get whiz-bang performance from my radeon on it. (2) is simply much more realistic budgetwise, but it would require giving up all hope of doing anything 3d with that system since the older cards are many generations behind, and only pci at that. So, here's my odd question: Is it possible to put the older (pci) card in the system w/the radeon, have the radeon render to a texture, and have the older card simply display the texture? Nick p.s. I realize this still doesn't resolve the 2d issue, but 2d off the older card should be fine. Kinda like the 3d pass-through that was used w/the 3dfx voodoos. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
