[vtkusers] VTK and multiple monitors.

[H.Vidal, Jr.]

In my opinion, the best multi-monitor performance I have seen under Linux
is nVidia based. TwinView takes about 3 minutes to setup, and hardware 
acceleration
is apparent across monitors. Of course, more complex geometry given two 
objects
(or sets of objects), each set on a different display, seems like it 
should be
a greater compute load, but nVidia cards seem to have plenty of horsepower,
and have never failed us yet.

The other thing that is nice about nVidia drivers is that, although their
drivers  are closed and proprietary, the code base between Linux and
Windows is about 90% common. So the concept is that as they improve
things on the Windows side (where most of the $ are), Linux users
should see the benefits as well.

Hopefully useful.

hv

David Gobbi wrote:
>>
> Thanks for the info.  I wasn't up on the details of how it works, only 
> that it does work ;)
> Enabling fancy graphics configurations is always tricky on Linux, and 
> usually
> involves a lot of reading through docs and mailing lists.
> 
> - David