Re: [Xastir] Slightly OT: Three-headed BigBox on Fedora 6

2007-02-05 Thread N1OFZ
Richard, That sounds like a nice setup. I've never been able to get more than 2 monitors working well. For fun this weekend I hooked up my Intel Mac Mini to my Maxent 50" plasma and have it running at 1920 x 1080i. I had xastir running, sat tracking software and browser window and there

Re: [Xastir] Slightly OT: Three-headed BigBox on Fedora 6

2007-02-05 Thread Richard Polivka
Jason, I know what it would look like - - - $$$ to the utility! Unfortunately, 1600x1200 LCD's are not commodity, let alone 1400x1050. If there was commodity pricing available on the 1600's, I would jump at them. Less power, less heat, clearer picture for these old eyes. It truly nice to behold

Re: [Xastir] Slightly OT: Three-headed BigBox on Fedora 6

2007-02-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Jason Winningham wrote: > If y'all keep talking I'm gonna have to learn how to do a multihead > sunray configuration just so I can put 30 of 'em on one virtual X > display. Let's see, 6 monitors wide by 5 tall running at 1900x1200 > resolution. What would xastir look like at

Re: [Xastir] Slightly OT: Three-headed BigBox on Fedora 6

2007-02-05 Thread Jason Winningham
If y'all keep talking I'm gonna have to learn how to do a multihead sunray configuration just so I can put 30 of 'em on one virtual X display. Let's see, 6 monitors wide by 5 tall running at 1900x1200 resolution. What would xastir look like at 11400 x 6000 resolution? (: -Jason kg4wsv

Re: [Xastir] Slightly OT: Three-headed BigBox on Fedora 6

2007-02-05 Thread Gerry Creager
And I was hoping to have a single big system up for svr wx season. Now I've gotta go rebuild the home system, add monitors, and convince my wife I've not gone (further) nuts, just to keep up with Richard. Where's it all gonna end? OK, fine. I'm off to scavenge 15 in monitors from surplus. I

Re: [Xastir] Slightly OT: Three-headed BigBox on Fedora 6

2007-02-05 Thread Richard Polivka
Curt, I have four more blank PCI slots. The PCI cards are $60.00 each. Monitors are somewhat available for the taking. The idea is wonderful but horrid at the same time. They are all running 1400x1050x24. I may back off to 16 bit color just to unload the memory demands. Time will tell. Three is m

Re: [Xastir] Slightly OT: Three-headed BigBox on Fedora 6

2007-02-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Richard Polivka wrote: > Now I have wrapped my eyes in glass...BigBox has three rectangular > eyeballs looking at me and room for one more. Sweet! Someday maybe I'll get there too. Quite a few SW developers here at work are running with dual screens. I have one 20" CRT and

[Xastir] Slightly OT: Three-headed BigBox on Fedora 6

2007-02-04 Thread Richard Polivka
Many years ago, there was a slogan "Wrap your a** in fiberglass, buy a 'Vette". Now I have wrapped my eyes in glass...BigBox has three rectangular eyeballs looking at me and room for one more. Here are the details: AMD Athlon64 clocked at 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, ATI Radeon 8500 LE AGP, ATI Radeon 9

[Xastir] Slightly OT: Three-headed BigBox on Fedora 6

2007-02-04 Thread Richard Polivka
Many years ago, there was a slogan "Wrap your a** in fiberglass, buy a 'Vette". Now I have wrapped my eyes in glass...BigBox has three rectangular eyeballs looking at me and room for one more. Here are the details: AMD Athlon64 clocked at 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, ATI Radeon 8500 LE AGP, ATI Radeon 9