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Re: Testing CygWin XFree86 with multiple monitors
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:39:18 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Testing CygWin XFree86 with multiple monitors
- References: <1092680483.20197.13.camel@famine>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> I'm using CygWin XFree86 with a dual monitor setup and a single monitor
> setup. In my experience there are, not surprisingly, more problems with
> the dual monitor setup.
>
> This made me think a bit about how multi-monitor CygWin XFree86 could
> get more testing.
>
> Is there any interest amongst CygWin XFree86 testers/develoeprs in a
> virtual device driver that will do the following?
>
> - allow adding of any number of virtual video cards. E.g. test CygWin
> XFree86 with 10 video cards? No problem! :-)
> - the video cards are "visible" indirectly by using e.g. the
> Accessibility->Magnifier
> - resolution is currently fixed at ~4000x2000x32bit, but it could be
> made configurable
> - the virtual device driver works by allocating a RAM buffer where all
> rendering takes place. Windows does all the rendering and it seems to be
> feature complete. OpenGL works, though I wouldn't hold my breath for
> DirectX apps.
>
> The source code is currently collecting dust, and I'm sure I could
> convince the owner to contribute it to the open source community if
> there is enough interest.
It sounds promising. Unfortunatly I don't have the possibility to test
such a setup but I'll see if I can get access to one.
bye
ago
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