multiple monitors, 3d acceleration

[Andy Ritger]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Luke Albers 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?

The NVIDIA driver (as of the 1.0-7664 driver) supports direct
rendering OpenGL with Xinerama, if all NVIDIA GPUs in the Xinerama
desktop are of the same generation.

I hope that helps,
- Andy Ritger


> Thanks
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