[vtkusers] VTK and multiple monitors.

Kevin H. Hobbs kevin.hobbs.1 at ohiou.edu
Wed Jan 11 11:00:25 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:13 -0500, David Gobbi wrote:
> I can give a little additional insight... SGI visualization systems 
> (Prism/Onyx)
> can handle this no problem, they're designed for fast multi-head graphics,
> any recent nVidia dual-head cards will work too, under either WindowsXP
> or Linux with Xinerama (never tried a quad configuration), I've never tried
> a Radeon but I suspect it would work for dual-head VTK on Windows.
> 
>  - David

The last I heard, Xinerama disables direct rendering altogether on
x.org. That's why I use the merged frame buffer option. I think it is
the same as NVidia's TwinView, one frame buffer that the card splits
onto the monitors, and some extensions to fake Xinerama for applications
that know about it.

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