From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller) Subject: Re: Any dual monitor support yet? Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 09:56:31 GMT
jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) wrote:
>the new Xfree86 (1.2) which should be out in 2 weeks (or so it is said)
>will have Herc support, so you will be able to run servers on each monitor...
Servers on each monitor, or a single server with two screens?
Since there's only one 'Display' with two 'Screens', wouldn't it have
to explicitly support this (i.e., both X sessions vying for the
keyboard and the mouse at the same time). Does/will Xfree86 support
multiple 'Screens' on the same 'Display' like the modified versions of
Xsun floating around?
BTW: even so, this will have drawbacks. When you stick a Herc card in
with a VGA card, the VGA card's speed cuts in HALF. This has
something to do with the way video cards use the bus (I'm not clear on
this). This happens if you have an 8-bit herc card and a 16-bit VGA
card. The VGA effectively turns into an 8-bit card.
-Dave
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