On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:31, Alex Deucher wrote: > > On a related note, I've been thinking about alternative ways to > implement mergedfb on radeon hardware. what if instead of creating a > single framebuffer with two viewports, we stuck with the old style > pScrn based multi-head code, but made each head a client of the DRI?
What do you mean by 'client of the DRI'? And how would this be 'merged'? :) > the 3D engine would be shared by each head. This seems to be the way > the 2D engine works in pScrn based multi-head now. The difference is that the 2D engine is only used by the X server, whereas the 3D engine is used by every 3D client, and the 3D driver still assumes that the locations of the front, back and depth buffers never change for a context. And that's just one of many problems with Xinerama. > would doing this potentially get around the issues with the scissor > registers limiting us to 2048x2048 for 3D? Sure, the limit is per screen. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
