On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 22:26 -0400, Peter Arremann wrote: > On Thursday 07 July 2005 22:15, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to get Xinerama behavior via hardware from the graphics > > card: > > > > Looks like the matrox "merged-mode" only supports two monitors? > > > > Looks like Nvidia "twin-view" mode only supports two monitors? > > > > > > Can anyone recommend a way to get 6-heads going without Xinerama? > Why would there be a problem with that? I'm running dual 20" flat panels of a > agp nvidia card and a 19" panel on an ati pci card - works great. You are running without Xinerama? > > > > I am looking to overcome Xinerama performance issues, especially when > > running java-based GUI apps. > What performance issues are you talking about? I'm running netbeans and > eclipse for different projects all day long - no speed issues :-) Maybe, that is one difference we use pure java GUI environment. I see a big difference between using a three-head system versus a six-head system. So, I wanted to gain some performance by trying to get the Xinerama effect via hardware. Maybe, what I really need to do is to throw more CPU and memory at the Linux box instead. > > Peter. >
