Interesting. Of course, it's been a while since I've run a Win98 setup at all, much less dual head. Perhaps later drivers corrected some of the early problems with Windows and dual head setups. At least when I used Win98, you had to specify the exact same color depth across both heads - no 256 colors in one and high color in the other. I do believe you could specify the resolution per monitor with some graphics adapters, but not with others. Originally, you had to get two paired cards, like the Millenium II (way back when...) and they both ran at the same resolution and color depth. Also, at least when I tried it, you couldn't specify where in space the monitors were in relation to each other (IOW, you could specify that one monitor was above or below the other - just beside)
I will admit that MS has obviously improved dual head support. However, the point of my post was that Xinerama support under X should work like it does on the Mac (and now Windows) Right now, there are several Window managers that handle this, and it would be nice if blackbox were among them. I run blackbox because it is light, consumes little disk space or RAM - and best of all, renders quickly across the network. The stunning irony of all of this (at least for me) is that my FreeBSD machine is so stable that I've taken to not leaving any monitor or keyboard attached at all. There is only the power cord and the ethernet cable. It's really more of a NAS box anyway. As such, the only time I see blackbox is when I log in graphically using Xwin32. Seth Henry On 30 Jan 2002, Ola Ormset wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 17:09, Seth Henry wrote: > > Microsoft eventually copied this into Windows, so you can now have > > multiple screens on PC's and drag windows back and forth between the > > screens. It's not as bright as the Mac version, of course, but the idea is > > the same. (for example - you can't specify different resolutions and color > > depths on a per monitor basis in Windows) > > Well, actually you can. I sometimes run W98 (yep, I got a > license...stupid me), and as you can see on this picture here: > http://zm.ormset.no/oo/galleri/stash/img_0564.jpg/view > > ..it is fully possible to run my external monitor at 640x480 with 256 > colors while running my internal laptop monitor at it's 1400x1050, 16bit > color. > > Just had to correct you, sorry. > > > Ok, that's it - I'm done ranting... :) > > Better to be right when ranting, yes? :) > > -- > Beste helsing Ola > > Who took the MMMMMM out of MURINE? >
