Re: Dual head with different color depth

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On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 12:56 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 22:26 -0500, Chu Tan wrote:
> > I've a newer AGP card and an old 2mb ATI mach64 PCI card.
> > 
> > The best I could do is to setup the AGP at 24bit depth, while the PCI at
> > 8bit depth, both 1280x1024.
> > 
> > However, my applications cannot move between the screens. I can move
> > icons on the desktop across, but not physical window frames.
> > 
> > Any suggestion?
> > 
> 
> AFAIK you can't have dual head - you'll two different X servers over
> xinerama.
> 
> E.g.
> 
> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier  "Screen0"
> 	Device      "Videocard0"
> 	Monitor     "CRT0"
> 	DefaultDepth    24
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth       24
> 		Modes       ...
> 	EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier  "Screen1"
> 	Device      "Videocard1"
> 	Monitor     "CRT1"
> 	DefaultDepth    8
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth       8
> 		Modes       ...
> 	EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	...
> 	Screen      0           "Screen0"
> 	Screen      1           "Screen1" rightOf "Screen0"
> EndSection
> 
> - Gilboa

.. You -might- want to consider using a new PCI card.
Given performance hit (due to the v.old PCI card), spending <10$ on a
better card is a no brainer.

- Gilboa


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