Xinerama infrastructure

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org
Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:50:13 +1100


> (to be fair, on certain cards, in my specific case the matrix g400, 
> xinerama is indeed as slow as molasses, for as yet unknown reasons -
> although it's nice to know that it's tied only to certain cards, and
> not the entire universe :)

I suspect the biggest reason is that by having 2 outputs, you
double the load on the card's bus, thus slowing down everything

Ben.