[haiku-appserver] Re: Haiku app_server as second head?
- From: "Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-appserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:36:21 +0200 CEST
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
>
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