Re: [Chromium-dev] Asymmetric display configuration?

[Brian P. <bri...@tu...>]

Randy Groves wrote:
> We've got a 3x3 display wall with several of the displays driven by 
> dual-head NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 cards.  9 displays, 5 PCs, 5 cards.  We 
> can get DMX to run on a configuration where all but one of the displays 
> is on a dual-head card.  DMX has no problem working with the X displays 
> :0.0 and :0.1 on each of the dual head machines.  So far, we have not 
> succeeded in getting chromium to do the same thing.
> 
> So we modified some of the dual heads to use twinview, so the display is 
> only :0.0, and chromium will run on top of DMX in this configuration.  
> But the twinview only seems to work if all the twin views are in the 
> same configuration - below, rightof, etc.  In this case we've set up the 
> bottom 6 in a 3x1 twinview format (using the 'Below' setting).   But 
> that leaves the remaining 3 displays.  We would like to  use the 
> remaining two machines to cover these last three displays, but that 
> means that one would be a single display, and the remaining two would be 
> in twinview but with a 'RightOf' setting.
> 
> DMX has no problem with this configuration.  But, so far, we haven't 
> found a way to get chromium to run on this configuration.  We are using 
> modifications of the dmx.conf file.

What are the symptoms of Chromium not working?


> So - the question is - does chromium support asymmetric display 
> configurations like the one we'd like to create?  Is it just a matter of 
> getting the right hand-crafted configuration file set up?  Or is this 
> just too much of a burden for chromium's mind?

This sort of thing should work.  Without knowing more, about the only 
thing that comes to mind is to change the tilesort's bucket_mode like 
this:

tilesortspu.Conf('bucket_mode', 'Test All Tiles')

-Brian