Re: [PLUG] Linux Open GL problem

[sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:02:34AM -0400, Michael Scappa wrote:
> Does anybody know if its possible for me to use openGL in multihead
> mode? I have so far been pretty unsuccessful, any thoughts or past
> experiences would be great.

works like a charm for me and my geforce4 (i believe it should work
with any card later than a geforce2, but ymmv).  

> My understanding is that multihead support for hw accelerated opengl is
> driver specific.  And of the two (ati/nvidia) better driver solutions,
> only one of them supported it last I heard.  That info is a few months
> old.  You could probably do multihead sw opengl, although I haven't seen
> any comments about that either way, that I can remember.

while i'm not sure whether or not it's completely driver specific, i am
using nvidia's driver specific extensions on my machine instead of
xinerama.  i found them very well documented, they work great, and if
i unplug one of my monitors it seems to automatically detect this and
switch to a single headed mode.


	sean

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