[linux-audio-dev] Two or more monitors) Re: Project: modularsynth editor

[Vincent Touquet]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:41:06PM +0100, Martijn Sipkema wrote:
>[...]
>> Xinerama _does_ support open GL, at least with my matrox card, I can have
>> openGL on one monitor of the two. That is a limitation of the card
>> hardware, AFAIK, not of X.
>
>I doubt this is a hardware limitation. The hardware just renders to AGP or
>local memory. I may be wrong though...
>
>--ms

As I checked the info on mergedfb, it seemed to me that it is a hardware
limitation, but most common hardware can do it, but they don't disclose
how, everyone their own shiny binary only module :/

That doesn't really help X to treat it uniformly across different cards.

v