Xinerama ibook G4 1.33

[Gsus]

Hi

I read somewhere that is impossible to run Xinerama on a ibook G4 1.33 12" for now is it true ?? And if its not true must I do something special or like ever on a x86 for example.

thx for reading this

bye

gsus

[coolsnowmen]

Curiosity...
Perhaps this is a naive response, but isnt an ibook a laptop? Why would you need/want xinerama on a computer with only one screen?

[scoobydu]

[coolsnowmen]

I've only sceen xinerama for say using two video card to stitch the screen together. To make one LARGE VIRTUAL SCREEN. So using xinerama w/ tvout would put 1/2 the screen on the tv and 1/2 on your laptop.

"Xinerama extension provides a mechanism for a multi-headed system to function as one large screen"

To watch a movie from my laptop onto a screen I wouldnt use xinerama because I have an nvidia card

With nvidia I use
Option "TwinView" "1"

Or make you can execute X, on a different display (vt8) with the screen definition on the tvout

I could definitly be wrong, but from my experiance with my one laptop, I did not use xinerama to use the tvout.
I have another experiance with a dualoutput nvidia, and that also does not use xinerama.

[scoobydu]

Interesting response.

So what do you suggest to allow my 23¨ cinema display to be part of my powerbook lcd (with an ATI card), as one desktop?
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[coolsnowmen]

giving you the benefit of the doubt, that you simply didnt read

[scoobydu]

[coolsnowmen]

My point is that: I thought You only need xinerama to paste multiple screen together into one large virtual screen.
In addition to that some video drivers provide for this w/o xinerama
If your intention is to simply utilize the video out, you might not need xinerama at all, depending on what you really want todo.
In your common example. watching a movie, you do not need xinerema in my limited experiance, You can simply use the tv-out separate from the monitor out.

[Gsus]

Hallo

sorry for my late reply

I founded the site but I had a newer Ibook with a other Radeon. So I read that with the new one it were not possible. The same problem I have with the direct rendering.

so if you heared something else ... I'll try it again.

so long

gsus

[scoobydu]

[Gsus]

okay thanks great so now i have hollidays and enough time thank you very much.

mfg

gsus