Testing CygWin XFree86 with multiple monitors

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Øyvind Harboe wrote:

> I'm using CygWin XFree86 with a dual monitor setup and a single monitor
> setup. In my experience there are, not surprisingly, more problems with
> the dual monitor setup. 
> 
> This made me think a bit about how multi-monitor CygWin XFree86 could
> get more testing.
> 
> Is there any interest amongst CygWin XFree86 testers/develoeprs in a
> virtual device driver that will do the following?
> 
> - allow adding of any number of virtual video cards. E.g. test CygWin
> XFree86 with 10 video cards? No problem! :-)
> - the video cards are "visible" indirectly by using e.g. the
> Accessibility->Magnifier
> - resolution is currently fixed at ~4000x2000x32bit, but it could be
> made configurable
> - the virtual device driver works by allocating a RAM buffer where all
> rendering takes place. Windows does all the rendering and it seems to be
> feature complete. OpenGL works, though I wouldn't hold my breath for
> DirectX apps.
> 
> The source code is currently collecting dust, and I'm sure I could
> convince the owner to contribute it to the open source community if
> there is enough interest.

It sounds promising. Unfortunatly I don't have the possibility to test
such a setup but I'll see if I can get access to one.

bye
	ago
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