<quote who="Jeff Waugh"> > <quote who="Jamie Wilkinson"> > > > Since then I've gotten myself a Matrox G400Max card which has two video > > outs, and is supported well under Linux and XFree86 for both 3d acceleration > > and dualhead. At work I use a Matrox G450 in dualhead mode. The matrox > > drivers, however, do not support both hardware accelerated 3D and dualhead > > at the same time, I have a feeling that this is a restriction in the > > hardware. > > Yeah, the second head is just a hack, basically using a chunk of memory to > fake a second output, which means you can't do anything funky with it. Works > well enough in most cases, though. >
There were some patches on the dri-devel mailing list recently to have 3D work across both desktops on dual-output cards like this. Last time I saw them, they worked, with wrinkles. It may appear in the DRI trunk sometime soon, or not. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came for the quality. I stayed for the freedom. -- Sean Neakums -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
