Xinerama infrastructure
Roland Mainz
roland.mainz@nrubsig.org
Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:56:14 +0100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > (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
... and I guess the rendering is done sequencial and not in parallel...
;-(
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