[Sderby] 3D duel head

Mini Mike sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sat Feb 22 14:39:01 2003


Your right it was a rather crap explanation!  The primary display adapter is 
an AGP GeForce 2 MX-400 64Mb card attached to a 19" HP A4033A montior.  The 
secondry is a PCI GeForce MX 32Mb card attached to a 15" CTX1451 monitor.  It 
was setup usuing SAX on SuSE 8.1.

On Saturday 22 February 2003 13:49, David Jolley wrote:
> * Mini Mike (hemstock@tiscali.co.uk) wrote:
> > I have recently setup a duel head config, however, OpenGL apparnetly will
> > not support 3D on a duel head setup.  I only need to get one monitor
> > doing 3D. Does anyone know any good tricks?  Need Tux Racer :-)
>
> Without knowing what your hardware is - which is a pretty important
> thing to know for providing help - all I can say is that with a Matrox
> G400 this *is* possible, by turning off Xinerama extensions.  This
> makes the primary display accelerated, and the secondary
> unaccelerated.  This may work for you too, but you'll obviously lose
> the benefits that Xinerama brings.
>
> A possible generic solution is to set up another X server (see
> Xserver(1) for details) and have the two X servers run
> simultaneously.  When you then want to play Tux Racer, simply switch
> to the other X server.  I used to do something similar to get 8bpp and
> 32 bpp servers back in the day when colour depth made a difference...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.