FreeLists / haiku-appserver / [haiku-appserver] Re: Haiku app_server as second head?

["Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gabe Yoder <gyoder@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> That would mostly depend on how friendly the graphics drivers decided 
> to 
> behave.  When I was initially developing the AccelerantDriver for the 
> app_server, I was attempting to run my graphics stuff on the 
> secondary 
> graphics card.  In my case, the primary was a Geforce 2 and the 
> secondary was 
> an old pci ATI Rage 2.  The secondary graphics card refused to open 
> properly.  
> Assuming that you don't hit problems like that, it should just be a 
> matter of 
> tweaking the app_server code to initialize using the secondary card.
> 
Wasn't the problem that it wouldn't do a cold initialization, which 
from what I've understood is vital to using a secondary graphics card.  
Would be nice to know before I buy myself an nVidia PCI (can't really 
use them for much else :P)

Other than that, does it seem feasible?

Thanks though!
-- Mikael

> On Saturday 23 July 2005 08:29 am, Mikael Jansson (mailing lists) 
> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Would it be possible to run BeOS on the primary graphics card and 
> > run
> > the Haiku app_server on a secondary, such as an nvidia? (having 
> > cold-
> > start support).
> >
> > Specifically, I was thinking a setup with BeOS playing movies on 
> > the TV
> > -output on the primary graphics card, and the GUI being displayed 
> > on
> > the second, using the Haiku app_server.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > -- Mikael
>