Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiheaded video cards?

2004-11-05 Thread Dale E. Edmons
Chris Metzler wrote: On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 23:07:01 -0800 "Dale E. Edmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: What I can tell you, though, is that DRI and OpenGL support for Matrox cards under Linux sucks rocks. First of all, Matrox' drivers are open, and their proprietary HAL m

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiheaded video cards?

2004-11-04 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 23:07:01 -0800 "Dale E. Edmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: > >> What I can tell you, though, is that DRI and OpenGL support for Matrox >> cards under Linux sucks rocks. First of all, Matrox' drivers are open, >> and their proprietary HAL module doesn't r

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiheaded video cards?

2004-11-03 Thread Dale E. Edmons
Chris Metzler wrote: On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 12:37:40 -0600 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I periodically get asked about multiheaded video cards for FlightGear. My standard answer is that I don't know for sure, but I suspect they wouldn't work well for FlightGear. However, the que

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiheaded video cards?

2004-11-03 Thread Dale E. Edmons
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I periodically get asked about multiheaded video cards for FlightGear. My standard answer is that I don't know for sure, but I suspect they wouldn't work well for FlightGear. However, the questions keep coming and I feel like I'm not able to give a really good answer.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiheaded video cards?

2004-11-02 Thread John Wojnaroski
- Original Message - From: "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FlightGear developers discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 10:37 AM Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Multiheaded video cards? > I periodically get aske

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiheaded video cards?

2004-11-02 Thread Jon Stockill
Jon S Berndt said: > I recall a couple years ago I was running two 17" monitors off of a > dual head nVidia GeForce MX400 card. When I ran FlightGear, the window > took up the entire width (two screens) as if the two monitors were one > wide screen. You, confirmed - you get a single virtual scree

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiheaded video cards?

2004-11-02 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 12:37:40 -0600 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I periodically get asked about multiheaded video cards for FlightGear. > My standard answer is that I don't know for sure, but I suspect they > wouldn't work well for FlightGear. However, the questions keep comi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiheaded video cards?

2004-11-02 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 12:37:40 -0600 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone played around with any of these options who can report success or failure or something in between? What kind of performance are you getting? I recall a couple years ago I was running two 17" monitors off

[Flightgear-devel] Multiheaded video cards?

2004-11-02 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I periodically get asked about multiheaded video cards for FlightGear. My standard answer is that I don't know for sure, but I suspect they wouldn't work well for FlightGear. However, the questions keep coming and I feel like I'm not able to give a really good answer. So can anyone help me ou