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Re: dual screen OpenGL

by "Serve Lau" <nihao@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jun 8, 2008 at 09:20 AM

"Serve Lau" <nihao@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schreef in bericht 
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> "jbwest" <jbwest@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schreef in bericht 
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>> Well, I suggest you dig deeper. The builders may not realize that 
>> Xinerama and OpenGL often don't get along well, or at all. What this 
>> means then, is, either No acclerated OpenGL (ugh, useless) with
Xinerama 
>> on or, any plain old X window on screen 0 CANNOT be moved to screen 1 
>> with Xinerama off (very, well, old-fa****oned & primitive). Many apps 
>> don't understand multiple screens & visuals. An app running on screen 0

>> can't just simply create another window on screen 1 -- you have to be 
>> careful to match XVisual's & use a different root & etc. PITA, trust
me.
>
> Sounds kinky. At this point in time I can't confirm that as I dont have 
> the hardware to play around with.
> But do we have to use Xinerama on linux? We could create our own system 
> right?

nevermind I looked it up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinerama

This is not what I need. The 2 graphic cards will not be making one large 
display they will be working independently or well, sometimes an animation

starting on one screen can sometimes continue on the other but then they
are 
still indpendant

>
>>
>> -jbw
>>
>>
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 11 Posts in Topic:
dual screen OpenGL
"Serve Lau" <  2008-06-04 13:11:38 
Re: dual screen OpenGL
Wolfgang Draxinger <wd  2008-06-04 13:15:31 
Re: dual screen OpenGL
"Serve Lau" <  2008-06-04 14:36:51 
Re: dual screen OpenGL
Wolfgang Draxinger <wd  2008-06-04 16:11:16 
Re: dual screen OpenGL
"jbwest" <jb  2008-06-04 17:43:27 
Re: dual screen OpenGL
"Serve Lau" <  2008-06-05 08:51:22 
Re: dual screen OpenGL
"jbwest" <jb  2008-06-05 17:50:31 
Re: dual screen OpenGL
"Serve Lau" <  2008-06-08 09:16:55 
Re: dual screen OpenGL
"Serve Lau" <  2008-06-08 09:20:30 
Re: dual screen OpenGL
"jbwest" <jb  2008-06-08 09:40:06 
Re: dual screen OpenGL
fungus <openglMYSOCKS@  2008-06-08 06:37:58 

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