From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 8 18:45:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26425 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 18:45:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25861 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 18:44:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-150.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.150]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA07245 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:44:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA11646 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:43:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804090143.UAA11646@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter In-reply-to: Message from Amancio Hasty of "Wed, 08 Apr 1998 01:07:48 PDT." <199804080807.BAA00594@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 20:43:44 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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