[rescue] octane question

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Thu Jan 17 11:19:54 CST 2002


>On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:54:24AM -0500, Big Endian wrote:
>> 
>>http://www.sgi.com/products/evaluation/6.5.13_multipipe_1.3/multipipe_relnotes.txt
>>
>>  As of 6.5.11 and solaris 8 (10/01 I think) Xinerama is supported in
>>  both IRIX and solaris.  (google for xinerama)  For those of us w/
>>  multihead machines this is *GREAT* news.  No longer do you have to
>>  deal with :0.0 to :0.1 dragging issues.  Of course xinerama screens
>>  need to be the same depth so you can't xinerama a 24 bit screen and
>>  an 8 bit screen.
>
>Of course, now we will get to deal with the fun of dialog boxes popping up
>center over the two screens..

actually if you set your resolutions different on the channels it 
tends to pop up mostly(almost all the way) on one side or the other. 
My powerbook is doing xinerama right now w/ 1024x768 on the LCD and 
1152x870 on the CRT next to it.  works great... dialogs and such pop 
up on the CRT.

daniel
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