tri-head display?

dantrevino · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 5:04 am Post subject: tri-head display?

Is a tri-head display within the capabilities of X? Specifically, Ti4200 with TV, monitor, and an Sis 6346 to a third monitor. I cant find any info.

What I want to do is connect two monitors, and _sometimes_ also use a TV (for videos, movies, etc).
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Twist · Guru Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 414 Location: San Diego

Xinerama was always built to handle up to N extra displays, but I have only used it with two (which required separate video cards in my config).

If you can get your TI4200 to drive the TV and monitor as separate ouptuts, I would say adding the 3rd is no big deal. The hard part is whether the TI4200 driver supports two outputs under X.

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puggy · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 6:44 am Post subject:

Unless you specifically want to have multiple X servers you can use twinview, which works like a charm on my dual screens and is about to be setup on tv-out as well. :-D

Puggy
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rojaro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 732

[img:5759f3bc82]http://wwws.sun.com/software/graphics/images/xinerama-ogl-764x465.gif[/img:5759f3bc82]
well ... could not resist to post this photo from the sun website :)

however, i've got the TI4200 running in two machines, but this card is only able to handle 2 screens at once ... that is either two monitors or one monitor and a tv set. but you could add more vga pci cards to your setup ...
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