[PD] many DVI ports with Debian/Ubuntu and Gem

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

The screens we are currently specing are 1080p, so each output should  
be able to do 1080.  The idea is to have 10 contiguous screens all in  
a line show one Gem space.  They can show up on the computer as  
contiguous or separate screens, that doesn't matter, I can handle the  
difference in Gem.  I think it might be easier to have them show up as  
separate screens.

I can break it up across multiple computers if that's easier, I'm  
mostly trying to reduce the expense.  I am just showing images, so not  
heavy on the CPU/GPU.

.hc

On Jun 3, 2010, at 4:37 PM, cyrille henry wrote:

> hello,
>
> with things like doublehead2go, or triplehead2go  :
> http://www.matrox.com/graphics/fr/products/gxm/th2go/
> you can easily have lot's of screen on 1 computer.
> (downside is that the screen are only horizontal)
>
> i made a 6 screen installation with a 400€ desktop having good  
> performance.
> (GPU was a NVIDIA 9600 or something : only use nvidia gpu on linux  
> if you need good performance and are not afraid of proprietary  
> driver).
>
> but what is the resolution of the screen?
> to have a screen disposition like this :
> x x x
> x x x
> is less a problem than like this :
> x x x x x x
> The size of openGL windows is hardware limited. usually 4096x4096,  
> but can go up to 8192x8192 with GPU having lot's of memory (go for  
> 1go video Ram).
>
> cyrille
>
> Le 03/06/2010 19:23, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
>>
>> I am looking into doing a 10 screen installation using Pd/Gem. I'd  
>> like
>> to run it on as few computers as possible. Anyone have any
>> recommendations for Debian or Ubuntu setups that can have like many  
>> DVI
>> ports in one computer?
>>
>> .hc
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