On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:13:05AM -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote:
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?
If you want to blit the whole desktop from one card to the
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:21:23PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
To get it to work well you need a card that can push data by DMA
from the framebuffer to the other card and kernel side driver code
to do the push triggering since XFree86 Get/PutImage methods don't
do DMA (tiled DMA Get/PutImage
On Mer, 2003-08-13 at 21:31, Nicholas Leippe wrote:
Hrm, thinking about the xv method mentioned earlier, could I run an
xserver on each card, and write a small app that combined xwd and
xsetroot (attached to both xservers) in a loop?
Could it be fast enough, not tear, etc?
People did Xshm
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 01:10 pm, Ian Romanick wrote:
Nicholas Leippe wrote:
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?
I don't think
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
You might also be able to use Xv and just take snapshots of your
radeon desktop and send them to the Xv adapter on the card driving the
panel. much like how a tv cards sends video data to the Xv adapter
using offscreen images. There might be limitations on bandwidth and
the size of the overlay
Nicholas Leippe wrote:
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?
I don't think that you could easilly do it transparently to apps. It
*might* be
