RE: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-06-01 Thread Boslough, Mark B
Message- From: Arnt Karlsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors On Thu, 30 May 2002 19:37:16 -0700 (PDT), Gene Buckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If memory serves

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-05-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 30 May 2002 19:37:16 -0700 (PDT), Gene Buckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If memory serves, it's a Radeon VE. I'm using it with two 17 flat panels. The machine is a Dell dual P4 running Win2k. ..hmmm. Have you tried it under Linux? Mandrake 8.2 or Red

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-05-31 Thread Gene Buckle
If memory serves, it's a Radeon VE. I'm using it with two 17 flat panels. The machine is a Dell dual P4 running Win2k. ..hmmm. Have you tried it under Linux? Mandrake 8.2 or Red Hat 7.3 may be a better choise to support the card, considering ATI's policy towards XFree86.org and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-05-30 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 30 May 2002 13:57:09 -0600 Boslough, Mark B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attempting to run flightgear under Windows 2000 on a machine with 2 monitors. My primary monitor is driven by a Geforce 3, and my second one is ... MX, so I don't think it is a video driver problem. Is

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-05-30 Thread Boslough, Mark B
- From: Jon S Berndt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors On Thu, 30 May 2002 13:57:09 -0600 Boslough, Mark B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attempting to run flightgear under Windows 2000

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-05-30 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 30 May 2002 14:14:13 -0600 Boslough, Mark B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Jon, Mine are both single head, the Geforce 3 is AGP and the other is PCI. Maybe that's the problem. I always run with the heads-up display anyway so the panel problem probably would not be an issue for me.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-05-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon S Berndt writes: I'm not sure how things would work if you run with two video cards. Think about some of the implications ... For instance, textures are stored on the card, so if you load a texture into one card, it would some how need to be loaded into the 2nd card if a portion of the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-05-30 Thread Boslough, Mark B
Does that mean that my GeForce 3 is overkill for fgfs? -Original Message- From: Jon S Berndt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors On Thu, 30 May 2002 14:14:13 -0600 Boslough, Mark

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-05-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Boslough, Mark B writes: Does that mean that my GeForce 3 is overkill for fgfs? As I understand it, the GeForce3 can run at higher resolutions than a GeForce2 for the same frame rate. The GeForce3 introduces workable antialiasing. The GeForce2 antialiasing is not generally useful ... i.e.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-05-30 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 30 May 2002 13:57:41 -0700 (PDT) Gene Buckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's generally accepted in the flight simulator community that trying to get two out-the-cockpit views on the same computer is a Bad Idea(tm). I might modify your statement to read: two individual video cards on

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-05-30 Thread Norman Vine
Jon S Berndt writes: A dual head card - at least in my case - works very good. The drawback is as I stated before, but that can be fixed by not displaying the panel. The HUD, however, is split between two monitors. Other than that, it's flawless and fast. This is one of the arguments for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-05-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 30 May 2002 14:13:31 -0700 (PDT), Gene Buckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The only dual-head card I'v ever dealt with is this ATI peice of crap in my workstation here at work. It *sucks* (for VERY large values of suck). ATI couldn't write a driver

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-05-30 Thread Gene Buckle
The only dual-head card I'v ever dealt with is this ATI peice of crap in my workstation here at work. It *sucks* (for VERY large values of suck). ATI couldn't write a driver properly if you held a gun to their collective heads and their lives depended on it. ..which ATI dual head