[PD] GEM & matrox 450 dual head setup

vanDongen/Gilcher gml at xs4all.nl
Mon Oct 8 10:14:01 CEST 2001


>well, I had a working solution once (currently unused). If I remember 
>correctly it looked it likes this:
>starting X without "xinerama" gives you 2 seperate display. One with dri 
>and one without.
>I used shellscripts to set the "display" enviroment variable (since pd 
>doesn't/didn't take that option). one to start pd (and its librarys) on 
>display 1 (with dri) with the guicmd option calling another script opening 
>the gui on display 2. The Gem Window now pops up on display 1 (with dri)
>additionally I ran different window managers (and screen solutions) on 
>each display. First configured for gem (zero border, titles,..) and second 
>for the gui.
>
>hope that helps.. never really ran or tested that "hardcore"
>.. 
>
>m.


I don't suppose you could post/mail the relevant scripts? The 
discriptions helps somewhat but the scripts would safe a lot of time


thanks

Gerard



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