Dual head with different color depth
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 09:58:23 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 12:56 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 22:26 -0500, Chu Tan wrote:
> > I've a newer AGP card and an old 2mb ATI mach64 PCI card.
> >
> > The best I could do is to setup the AGP at 24bit depth, while the PCI at
> > 8bit depth, both 1280x1024.
> >
> > However, my applications cannot move between the screens. I can move
> > icons on the desktop across, but not physical window frames.
> >
> > Any suggestion?
> >
>
> AFAIK you can't have dual head - you'll two different X servers over
> xinerama.
>
> E.g.
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Videocard0"
> Monitor "CRT0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes ...
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen1"
> Device "Videocard1"
> Monitor "CRT1"
> DefaultDepth 8
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes ...
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> ...
> Screen 0 "Screen0"
> Screen 1 "Screen1" rightOf "Screen0"
> EndSection
>
> - Gilboa
.. You -might- want to consider using a new PCI card.
Given performance hit (due to the v.old PCI card), spending <10$ on a
better card is a no brainer.
- Gilboa
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