We've used xinerama here to great effect. Before xinerama, we were using some third-party x-server, so we already had the hardware set up. Getting xinerama to work took me all of about 10 minutes (including reading the howto). Our video cards were some mid-line Matrox cards, both identical (I don't remember the model off-hand).
Xinerama did everything I asked of it, and ran our two monitor system for over a week at sea with no hitches. While I don't have *extensive* experience with it, the experience I do have left me with a good, fuzzy feeling inside. The only thing to look out for, I think, is window manager stuff...not all WMs are xinerama-aware, so you can get wierd effects. Sawfish mostly works, and Enlightenment probably does, too. Good luck. Austin Bingham Applied Research Laboratories [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm looking for personal opinions on Geforce2 MX and ATI Radeon (ve/7k/7.5k) > boards. I need dual CRT's for my (in progress) home music studio, and a > TV-out for playing DiVX on a big-screen, and I would like to use both > monitors in linux ;) Has anyone here personally set up Xinerama? > > I'm also looking for general opinions on them as 2D boards. I've given up > gaming and don't care about GL or Direct3d, so I'm looking for stability and > compatibility in both linux and windoze (98), AGP (I need the PCI bandwidth > for a raid controller, multichannel audio, etc) so no 'just buy another pci > video card'. _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
