Re: CHALLENGE!!! =)

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Fri, 14 Aug 1998 02:18:04 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Alex Buell wrote:

> > Not possible. The ,,excelent'' pc architecture allows only one (S)VGA
> > graphic card. However, you can plug in a VGA and a hercules :-)
>
> Does PCI allows us to plug in say, two Matrox Millenniums, and use as an
> unified X11 display across the two of the monitors?
>
> If Sparcs can do this with their framebuffer devices, why can't we?! One
> of the most interesting things about the Sparcs is the *cool* ability to
> have as much as 8 displays hanging off the box.

I dunno about Xfree, but MetroX supports this allready in 2.0.x.

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