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 your card supports. Also not all cards expose RGB overlays for Xv, some only provide YUV.
Alex --- Nicholas Leippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- 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
