multiple monitors, 3d acceleration

[Alex Deucher]

On 8/11/05, Luke Albers <gtg940r at mail.gatech.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 17:16 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On 8/11/05, Luke Albers <gtg940r at mail.gatech.edu> wrote:
> > > Hey everyone
> > >
> > > I know that this didn't used to be possible, but I'm hoping that this
> > > might have changed.
> > >
> > > Is there any was to use xinerama, or something like xinerama that lets
> > > me move windows between monitors, with two different video cards, and
> > > get accelerated graphics on both of them?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> >
> > on dualheaded radeon and sis cards, yes.  it's called mergedfb.  on
> > other dualhead cards and on comupters using multiple cards, no.  It's
> > not yet supported in those configurations.
> 
> Does anyone know if this is something that should work eventually, and
> if so, any idea of when? Or am I just out of luck since I am using
> different cards?
> 

eventually... it's doable, but will require some work.  I can't say
when it will be supported.  once server side hw accelerated indirect
rendering is supported (in the not too distant future), you could
start two separate servers (one on each card) and link them using dmx
and glxproxy.

Alex


> Thanks
> 
>