Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ Jim ] on Monday 24 July 2006 13:12 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> __/ [ Jim ] on Monday 24 July 2006 12:24 \__
>>>
>>>> Brad wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:29:49 +0000, Jim wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> it's fan-bloody-tastic on a triple-head setup. You can rotate screens
>>>>>> and bring the one you want to work on to the centre one, and monitor
>>>>>> or whatever on the other two. Great for doing five things at once. (I
>>>>>> do my email/news, IRC, torrents, browsing, dev work etc on seperate
>>>>>> screens - 6 in all, and rotate focus using one of the media keyboard
>>>>>> hotkey pairs (specifically, >> and <<); this still means I can move
>>>>>> my focus between any of three screens, and work on any screen, but my
>>>>>> main focus screen is the centre one. Highly practical).
>>>>>
>>>>> I only have one monitor. :-(
>>>>>
>>>>> Brad
>>>>
>>>> Bummer.
>>>
>>> One can be good too. Here's one which I saw a few days ago:
>>>
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/193461561/
>>>
>>> It gives you a spatial clue. I wonder how Compiz/XGL, for example, will
>>> respond to such high resolution.
>>
>> It does good at 3072x768 (1024x768 per desktop), tho expectedly a little
>> jerky at times, which I think is only to be expected from Alpha software
>> running at such an unusual configuration. It'll only get better, I'm
>> sure.
>
> Either you have a strong graphics card (OpenGL working in multi-head used
> to be tricky some years ago) or you deliberately lower the resolution from
> something such as (potentially) 4800x3600 pixels. Also have a look at:
>
>
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-computer-setups
>
> Makes us all envy... *smile* These people spend a lot of time and dough on
> their workspace. Evidently!
Not really. It all sort of went in painlessly, though it was a shoehorn
effort to get the USB VGA adapter in the mix. The main GPU is a GeForce FX
6200V+ 256MB AGP8x triple head, but for the setup I've foregone the TVO
option, that'd force a vertical resolution drop to 600 which is
unacceptable for me for a pan layout.
My next build project is going to be one of those Gigabyte motherboards with
five PCI Express slots and twin onboard graphics, gonna get some 6600 cards
in (5 of), 12x19" TFT monitors, and have me an uber setup. 6400x3600
theatre aspect, anyone?
Wouldn't even touch some of those setups tho :( I particularly like the
Quake cluster setup, reminds me of my Quake/UT cluster (two 1GHz PIII
laptops, two projectors, all running through a 2.0 P4m head node)
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