Hi,
I have been on the list for a couple years now, but I rarely join
our wonderful discussions (okay I am so lazy). I think this is my first
post in a year? ;)
Austin, my question is that are you running two distinct x-server
processes on two crts? Or are you extending your current desktop onto
another one (which means 1 x-server process). I will be interested to
know how you accomplish the first one. Probably (two framebuffers?)
The first approach creates one large [non-regular] resolution, say
2048x768. The first crt will occupy left 1024x768 and the second crt will
occupy the right 1024x768. Having two cards with same capability will
make things a lot easier. On my box, I have a low-end, salvaged S3 card
with 1MB vmem. One thing Xinerama makes you to do (at least I don't have
a solution for it) is to have both crts running the same depth. So what
happened is that I can't get 2048x768 working. You will have to calculate
before hand how big do you want your geometry look like. So I have
+---------------+-+-+-+-+-+-+767
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| +-+-+-+-+-+-+ 480
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
+---------------+-----------+ 0
0 1023 1023+640
The shaded area is not displayable. You can set the virtual size to a big
one and be able to use that area but I wouldn't recommend it cuz last time
I try it will segv fault my mplayer. You want to have the virtual size as
the same as above (1024+640x768), then you window manager will be prone to
problems.
With some creativity, you can move the smaller res on top of the large one
or any direction yout want. I find this arragement works well for me.
You can get greedy, and I am not sure if I got it working or not, is that
you can chain 3 screens together in the following order: (on top of
normal, geforce2 mx tv out) -> (normal, geforce2mx crt out) -> (to the
right of normal, ati-radeon). I don't have a second montior to test my
setting but I bet chances that it works is great.
Here is a problem, I am yet to figure out how to switch my core-mouse0 and
core-keyboard0 gracefully between screens. When I enable full screen on
the TV (640x480) it will lock my core-inputs until I quit the movie.
Not helpful right? My goal is like yours, Patrick, to play divx on TV and
edit my files on my crt. Well, maybe you can get away if you have a usb
keyboard on core-input1 and include it when you fired up Xinerama. Again,
I don't have hardware to test it out.
Enlightenment is by far the best wm to support xinerama. I use IceWm,
which works for me. Hmm...WindowMaking works I think but I didn't check.
Jonathan
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Austin Bingham wrote:
> 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
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> > 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'.
>
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