Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 20:43:44 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter Message-ID: <199804090143.UAA11646@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> of "Wed, 08 Apr 1998 01:07:48 PDT." <199804080807.BAA00594@rah.star-gate.com>
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Amancio Hasty writes: > Oh, I used to hack on X servers and I think we should be able to do it at > the very least we should be able to spread a display across multiple > monitors with the same resolution and color depth. The more I think > about it the easier it gets ... which makes me wonder why we don't > have such functionality. That would be a good start. However the Mac configuration I had looked something like this: +-------+ | | +----------+----------+ | | : : | | : +-------+ | : | | : | +----------+ | +----------+ No two were the same size. Left and right were usually run at 8 bits deep while the middle was a 1-bit monochrome. Each used a wildly different video interface. I used '|' and '-' above to draw the mouse limits, ':' delimits the boarders where the mouse would cross onto another monitor. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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