Subject: Re: SS10 vs 3000/400
To: Jed Davis <jldavis+netbsdlist@cs.oberlin.edu>
From: Kerberus <kerberus@microbsd.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/12/2002 14:56:21
Not that its on my Sun but i do have Xfree86 driving one desktop across
4 22" Viewsonic monitors quite nicely at 1600x1200, lotsa landscape

On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 13:48, Jed Davis wrote:
> der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> writes:
> 
> > > in which case there'd be one large "desktop" spread across the two
> > > monitors?
> > 
> > No, I've never seen this.  I've heard that there exist X servers which
> > can weld multiple displays into one X screen, but have never seen one.
> > To be sure, I've never gone looking, because in my case the displays
> > are heterogenous (cg6 and bw2), so even if the software did exist, it
> > would mean some kind of compromise I don't want to make.
> > 
> > Given what I know of the X Consortium sample server, I believe I could
> > build a ddx layer that split a single root across two identical
> > framebuffers.  It wouldn't be very performant, though. :-)
> 
> The string you're looking for is "Xinerama".  I don't know what it can
> do as heterogenous displays go, but I've seen it work on two identical
> heads (on NetBSD/i386).
> 
> --Jed
> 
> -- 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -- ## "But life wasn't yes-no, on-off.  Life was shades of gray,
> sub f{(($n,$d,@_)=@_)?(substr(## and rainbows not in the order of the spectrum."
> " ExhortJavelinBus",$n&&$d/$n,1),$n?f($d##   -- L. E. Modesitt, Jr., _Adiamante_
> %$n,$n,@_):&f):("\n")}print f 1461,10324,55001,444162,1208,1341,5660480,79715997
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