[openbeos] Re: OBOS Poll: Multiple Monitor Support
- From: André de Barros Martins Ribeiro <andrerib@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:36:01 -0200
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From: "Roman Stepanov" <roman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: OBOS Poll: Multiple Monitor Support
> Jasse Jansson wrote:
>
> >
> > On onsdag, januari 9, 2002, at 12:40 , Roman Stepanov wrote:
> >
> >> DarkWyrm wrote:
> >>
> >>> I've been thinking about R2 having multiple-monitor support, but I'm
> >>> not exactly sure about what the interface should be. Be never reached
>
> [ -=cut=- ]
>
> >>> like to know what the developer community thinks. Which seems to be
> >>> the best idea, or is there a better solution?
> >>> --DarkWyrm
> >> I think that stretching a single workplace to many monitors would be
> >> great for gamers (like me ;)) and having separate workplaces would be
> >> nice for delevopers and CAD/CAM apps. So both options implemented
> >> would be great!
>
> >
>
> > Hmm, a game that runs in "widescreen" mode. Nice idea.
> > But there is at least one issue with that.
> > I assume that you will have one gfx card on the AGP bus, right.
> > There is only one AGP slot available i a computer.
> > That means that the other one has to use a PCI slot.
> > If/when obos will support 2/4x AGP bus speeds, you might
> > notice some artifacts on the monitor that runs the PCI card when
> > you try to run the game at high resolutions, lotsa colors and
> > even more bit/mip-maps that has to be moved across the
> > PCI bus. Eventually, you will choke the PCI bus while the
> > AGP bus will be as happy as ever. Got the idea???
>
>
> I saw some motherboards with PCI64 slots, so I hope someday it will be
> possible to plug 3 or 4 GeForce/PCI64 cards into my brand new Pentium-5
> box running OBOS ;))
>
>
> The other solution is some high perfomance dual head cards but I don't
> know if 3D acceleration is possible for both heads simultaneously and
> independently...
>
> --
> WBR, Roman
>
> Visquez EG (http://www.visquez.com)
>
>
There are some nVidia GeForce AGP cards with the TwinView funcion, that
means you can use it with more than one monitor (it has 2 monitor exits),
and you can choose if you want to expand the desktop or show the same image
on both.
André de B. M. Ribeiro
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