On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Dean S. Messing wrote:

> 3) I would like to have high-speed 3D graphics capability.

> (1) and (2) are "musts", (3) is a "would _really_ like"
>     and (4) is a "would like".

> c) Items (3) and (4) should take place on the panel.  If they can
>    also be done on the the CRT, that's icing on the  cake.

With the open source drivers, DRI (3D) is currently only available on
the first card of a multi screen setup. It may be possible to get DRI
on 2 heads of a dual head card - I haven't tried.

The Nvidia driver doesn't use DRI, so this restriction may not apply.

> Having stated my ignorance, I'll ask one more set of questions: Do I
> need two cards to run dual-head in the mode I've described?  If so,
> then what do I do about having only one "AGP" slot on my motherboard?
> Can I run the other (slower?) card in a PCI slot?

Yes. 

(Sorry, but I don't immediately have time to answer more fully).

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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