On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 13:57 -0800, Hal V. Engel wrote: > On Monday 05 November 2007 14:13:54 Bernhard Kuhn wrote: > > Cloter M wrote: > > > Hello, first post, so please be patient. > > > > > > I´m thinking about setting up FGFS with multiple displays in linux > > > (debian etch). I can configure multiple video cards for X and I can get > > > around the XML files, but can somebody point me at the right > > > documentation that can tell me how to set this up? Also, is there a > > > (successful) similar project that I can learn from? Thanks!
I've run FGFS: - On a dual-head 1024x768 nVidia setup. - On a seven-head, each one having 1024x768 setup. Each machine had an independent FGFS instance running, slaved to the "master" one where I pilot. This was built using LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project), meaning the six slaves were diskless machines, booting over the network and automatically starting their FGFS (and Atlas). A simplified version of it (with low quality hardware) was on display last year. You can see a video (Ogg Theora) in http://www.ldc.usb.ve/~emhn/hacks/demo.ogg taken by someone who was watching the presentation; al the glitches are due to bad cabling, bad video cards (¡i810!) and limited RAM (256Mb each head). - I'm working on a similar setup, but using a different technique. This time I intend to use distributed OpenGL acceleration. I will run ONE instance of FGFS on my laptop, but the OpenGL operations will be distributed among a _dozen_ computers with nVidia cards (NOT top of the line), each one of them responsible of a fragment of a 1024*4 x 768*3 "display wall"; I have tested it with Gnome/Beryl, Quake3 and Unreal Tournament, and works fine. I'm using XDMX plus Chromium. As soon as I finish the setup, I'll post up minimal instructions for building it; specially if it works out at 1600*4 x 1200*3 and I finally have the time to get the darn Wii-mote to work just right... Everything is done using Debian GNU/Linux. -- Ernesto Hernández-Novich - Linux 2.6.18 i686 - Unix: Live free or die! Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Debian of course. If you can't aptitude it, it isn't useful or doesn't exist. GPG Key Fingerprint = 438C 49A2 A8C7 E7D7 1500 C507 96D6 A3D6 2F4C 85E3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
