Multi-monitor support (more than 2-heads) in FC4

Peter Arremann loony at loonybin.org
Fri Jul 8 02:26:53 UTC 2005


On Thursday 07 July 2005 22:15, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get Xinerama behavior via hardware from the graphics
> card:
>
> Looks like the matrox "merged-mode" only supports two monitors?
>
> Looks like Nvidia "twin-view" mode only supports two monitors?
>
>
> Can anyone recommend a way to get 6-heads going without Xinerama?
Why would there be a problem with that? I'm running dual 20" flat panels of a 
agp nvidia card and a 19" panel on an ati pci card - works great.


> I am looking to overcome Xinerama performance issues, especially when
> running java-based GUI apps.
What performance issues are you talking about? I'm running netbeans and 
eclipse for different projects all day long - no speed issues :-)

Peter.




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