[PLUG] Solaris question.

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

I'm pretty close to moving my main workstation uses at home off of
an IA32 machine and onto either an Ultra 30 or Ultra 60[1], and I
have just one lingering doubt after playing with Solaris 9 enough to
be sure that most things would be okay.

On both my workstations (at home and at work), I use XFree86 with
Xinerama to map two displays into a single desktop. The
configuration for this is remarkably painless, but more importantly
it *works*, without fail. I'm sure I can get an extra video card
into an Ultra workstation... but can I make Sun's X server use it in
a Xinerama-like way? (I guess I'd settle for having to make XFree86
install... but that seems awfully backwards.) Has anyone done this
under Solaris?

[1] Which I'll probably buy from http://www.anysystem.com/. I can't
recommend them in the "Yes, I'm a loyal customer because they're
great," sort of way because I haven't purchased anything from them
yet, but they've got Sun hardware (in all classes, even including
new SunFire stuff) at reasonable prices, aimed not at being some
business's chosen VAR but at the "would buy from eBay and worry
about quality" crowd, which I haven't so much seen anyone else
doing. (Of course, I couldn't buy from them at work, since we really
need to have the service contract assurances, but for a small to
medium business that's up to needing a workgroup or enterprise
server, they might also be a good choice.)

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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