[rescue] octane question
Big Endian
bigendian at mac.com
Thu Jan 17 11:45:04 CST 2002
>Big Endian wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
>Yes you can, but they all default to the lowest res/depth. It's cool if
>you've got all the same fb/monitor combos. Still works if you don't, but
>what's the point?
Whats the point of multihead? I grew up w/ multihead on macs. It
was a given, if you had multiple cards you had a bigger desktop. I
guess its just the way I think but thats "normal" behavior for a
multihead system. When I first tried to do multiple heads on an ss20
and I couldn't drag things between screens I thought "well this
sucks, do ALL X11 systems do this?" and then a year later Xinerama
came out and made X11 work like a "real" multihead system. Its not
perfect, Macs allow you to run multiple displays at different bit
depths/resolutions w/ different cards seamlessly but it will get
there.
daniel
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