Re: [Dri-users] mga/Xinerama and DRI

[Leigh D. <le...@ec...>]

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 08:07, Steffen Hein wrote:
> When I enable Xinerama, DRI stops working (it also gives a message in the=
 log=20
> about that). I'm using XF4.2/Debian with the current matrox drivers.
>=20
> After googleing around the whole evening, I found that some people actual=
ly=20
> *got* it working, but I can't find out how. I remember having it working=20
> myself months ago (back then with SuSE 7.2 or something like that).
>=20
> Everything works - of course - fine when I disable Xinerama.
>=20
> I found a news posting where someone says, that he has a patch to make=20
> DRI+Xinerama possible again but google doesn't archive attached files :(
>=20
> What I want to know is: Is it possible or not (with at least the primary =
head=20
> 3d-accelerated)?
>=20
Multi-head, where you have two physically seperate displays that share
mouse/keyboard input and a clipboard, works with DRI on my G450, giving
3D acceleration on the first head at least. While multihead isn't quite
as cool as the single unified desktop that Xinerama gives you, it's
still very cool, and seeing that in almost all circumstances you're
probably gonna be running each application entirely on one head (one for
Mozilla, one for Xchat ;) ) it's not as much of a step back as you might
think.

To get multihead mode working properly you'll need a window manager with
good multihead support - enlightenment 0.16 is the best I've used so
far.

Thanks
Leigh