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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.



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