Quad head video card

[Alex Deucher]

On 12/19/05, Erwin Rol <mailinglists at erwinrol.com> wrote:
> Hey Mike,
>
> thanks for your reply, that makes clear that one can never have
> everything at the same time :-). One of the things that I could dump
> most easily is Xinerama, if the 4 screens can display "things" I can do
> the rest in a client program without Xinerama, I don't know if that
> would make things easier when it comes to selecting a card/chipset.
>
> The next thing they (I say "they" cause this is really against my idea)
> will suggest is to use a closed driver like the matrox HAL.
>
> In case we end up making our own board, which will probably be 4 PCI VGA
> chips on a PCI bus, how would X (or linux FB) like that ?
>

Depending on how many cards you are planning to roll out, you might
want to approach matrox or colorgraphics, etc. and tell them you want
to use their boards assuming they will provide open source driver
support.

Alex

> - Erwin
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