Nvidia and multihead

[Net Llama!]

On 02/25/2006 08:46 PM, Robin Haswell wrote:
> Hey guys
> 
> I noticed there were some discussions about multihead on here recently 
> (the /. one), so I though I'd add my $0.02 to this. My work recently 
> lavished second monitors on us all, and in the office I use a 
> bastardised XFCE front-end / GNOME services & sessions / e17 relics 
> hybrid. Anyway xfwm4 is my window manager. What all this boils down to 
> is, xfwm4 kicks ass with either Xinerama or Twinview, there's no 
> usability difference between the two whatsoever. However, painting is 
> glacially slow with Xinerama, and judging from Xorg's CPU usage I'd say 
> Xinerama nukes the hardware acceleration, but with Twinview everything's 
> nice and zippy so I'm happy.

That's definitely not the case.  The nvidia driver provides full 
acceleration with Xinerama and/or TwinView.  If that's not what you're 
experiencing, please email linux-bugs at nvidia.com with an 
nvidia-bug-report.log and details on how the problem can be reproduced, 
and I'll investigate further.

Thanks.


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