Re: [Dri-devel] High-resolution monitors (T221)

2003-09-02 Thread Dave Airlie
I recently got from ATI Embedded, an eval kit for the M7 and M9 and these cards have dual DVI, granted they don't fit in a PC case too well ( one connector comes out the top of the card :-), but they are only eval boards for embedded designers.. Dave. On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Alex Deucher wrote:

Re: [Dri-devel] High-resolution monitors (T221)

2003-09-02 Thread Ian Romanick
Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, this is pretty off-topic, but I'm wondering what the status is for open-source support of 3D-capable drivers for such studly monitors as the IBM T221. It is a beast. A couple people in my group are trying to convince management that we need one, but it's a hard sell

Re: [Dri-devel] High-resolution monitors (T221)

2003-09-02 Thread Rich 'Forge' Mingin
However, I was wondering if anybody knows of somebody using it with proper opensource drivers.. Or is just otherwise confident for some technical reason that it should work.. I'd want 3D acceleration to work, but I don't care if it ends up being limited to smaller areas (ie if the canvas

Re: [Dri-devel] High-resolution monitors (T221)

2003-09-02 Thread Brian Paul
Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, this is pretty off-topic, but I'm wondering what the status is for open-source support of 3D-capable drivers for such studly monitors as the IBM T221. Yes, it's still expensive as hell, but it isn't nearly as bad as it was a few years ago when it was very limited

Re: [Dri-devel] High-resolution monitors (T221)

2003-09-02 Thread Keith Whitwell
Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, this is pretty off-topic, but I'm wondering what the status is for open-source support of 3D-capable drivers for such studly monitors as the IBM T221. Yes, it's still expensive as hell, but it isn't nearly as bad as it was a few years ago when it was very limited

Re: [Dri-devel] High-resolution monitors (T221)

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Lampe
Brian Paul wrote: People have driven the T221 in that manner, but I'm not sure how the video signals from the four cards were synchronized. See http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/cr/cr.pdf. They used IBM's SGE (Scalable Graphics Engine, a network-attached parallel framebuffer) to drive the

Re: [Dri-devel] High-resolution monitors (T221)

2003-09-02 Thread Mika Liljeberg
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 16:44, Brian Paul wrote: If one doesn't have a single graphics card capable of driving this display, four systems can be used: With DMX (http://dmx.sourceforge.net/) you can set up a multi-machine Xinerama desktop. On top of that, you can use Chromium

[Dri-devel] High-resolution monitors (T221)

2003-09-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ok, this is pretty off-topic, but I'm wondering what the status is for open-source support of 3D-capable drivers for such studly monitors as the IBM T221. Yes, it's still expensive as hell, but it isn't nearly as bad as it was a few years ago when it was very limited availability, and cost USD

RE: [Dri-devel] High-resolution monitors (T221)

2003-09-01 Thread Daniel Vogel
Damn, but it's a drool-inducing piece of hardware. Indeed - Tim has one on his desk and it's virtually impossible to spot single pixels on it :) Be warned though if you plan to get one, the low refresh rate can be very annoying. -- Daniel, Epic Games Inc.

Re: [Dri-devel] High-resolution monitors (T221)

2003-09-01 Thread Roland Scheidegger
Linus Torvalds wrote: The thing is a 3840x2400 pixel monster, and to drive it at reasonable frequencies you actually need to support a quad DVI setup where it looks basically like four monitors running at 1920x1200. And from what I can gather by googling, the outputs need to be synchronized,

Re: [Dri-devel] High-resolution monitors (T221)

2003-09-01 Thread Alex Deucher
Linus, Some dell OEM radeon cards offered Dual DVI ports and I believe there are some other oems (tyan?) that will be offering Dual DVI cards. the radeon 9000s and newer only have one tdms trandsmitter built in, but an additional external one can be added on to drive the second DVI port. for