I was under the impression that ATI had better support than nvidia. I don't keep up with either drivers though.
Spencer On Tuesday 26 February 2002 5:43, Jacob Brown wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Patrick Lang wrote: > > 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? > > Yes it comes with an adapter to plug a normal vga cable on the DVI ouput, > but I've never been able to get this card to work in Xwindows and I don't > think it will work for another few years. (ATI doesn't care about Linux > users as much as NVidia sorta cares) > I emailed ATI about it and they basically said that they don't support > Linux and that they might in the future. > I'm guessing never.... > > If anyone has gotten this to work, please email me..... I've tried asking > everyone (ATI, video4linux people, etc) > > Jacob Brown > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
