Actually, I'm not worried about TV + CRT simultaneously. What I need is 2 CRT's with one desktop, be able to drag windows between them (KDE is my WM/desktop) on a regular basis w/ Xinerama. I would not be using the TV at the same time as the rest of the setup, or would want it to be a seperate desktop. I just figured since I'm planning to buy a new board, a TV-out would be nice for the occasional divx.
Another q: Most of the radeons I've seen have 1 flat panel, 1 crt, 1 tv. Can you convert the flat panel to a regular CRT? Patrick On Tuesday 26 February 2002 04:57 pm, Chun-Chi Jonathan Chen wrote: > 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 > > [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 > > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
