[Gllug] two heads better than one?

[David Freeman]

 --- bredroll <bredroll at atari.org> wrote: 
> Hello :-)

\o002
 
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, David Freeman wrote:
<snip>
 > 
> > 1)On a athlon 700 will the extra 32MB of ram on the 64MB board make
> a
> > lot of difference, is it worth getting to prolong the life a
> little?
> 
> It will, but not a particularly significant one, but thinking ahead
> there
> is bound to be stuff that uses lots of textue ram. quake2 runs on
> most
> things and will fly even on a P233 and voodoo1 or even s3 virge. q3
> needs
> 3dfx/opengl hardware really. so geforce 2 is ideal

Thats what I thought. I think the extra 32MB of ram is worth the extra
£10. So 64mb it is.
  
> > 2)I currently have a 8mb mystique which I am happy with for normal
> X
> > windows stuff. The question I have is: if I leave that in a PCI
> slot
> > and drop the Geforce in the AGP slot, can I then run duel head on
> the
> > same box? so That I get a nice big work space? also can I run
> different
> > resolutions on different screens, or X on one, and Quake 2 on the
> > other?
> 
> yes you can do this, multihead is easy, even i figured it out, you
> can
> have any screen size. if you want xinerama (2 monitors 1 desktop)
> then
> they both need to be same col depth. 

Is there a howto or manual for doing this? Also If I put in a old 2MB
PCI graphics card could I then have a 3rd montor set up as a console
only?

> svgalibs new versions allow you to use multihead systems. bit
> complicated
> tho.

Sounds cool, I can have rear view monitors in the flight sims :o)
 
> i have 2 s3 virge cards. i use xinerama and i can ctrl alt fx out to
> play
> quake2/squake on the primary card. 

Cool, how much ram does the s3 cards have? Also do you need identical
cards?
 
> but you can play quake2/3 in X, therefore using your xinerama, DRI
> doesnt
> work over multiple cards, (afaik) but i think mesa glx might let you
> do
> accelerated gl on the geeforce2 if you dont use xinerama and just use
> normal X with multiple displays (xinerama gives 1 display over
> several
> screens and normal gives each screen a localhost:x address - you can
> even
> run different window managers in each)

So to use openGl via mesa I wouldn't be able to run xinirama?

If I run two seperate X servers like that how would the single keyboard
and mouse work?

Also how would I deal with a BTTV card? could I run one monitor as a TV
and another as a computer monitor?

<fx action="adds up bank balance in octal to see if I can afford a new
monitor as well?">

Thanks

D 

> hope this is helpful
> 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > D
> 


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