My company bought me a SunBlade 1500 recently and instead of the XVR-100
card, it came with the XVR-600, which unfortunately only has a single
monitor output.

Can I put an additional XVR-100 and use it with the XVR-600 for dual
monitor display?

Are there other cheaper cards I could use with the XVR-600?

I'm running Solaris 10 on this machine by the way.

Regards,

Richard Cross.

Mothra <mothra@mothra.com> writes:

>My company bought me a SunBlade 1500 recently and instead of the XVR-100
>card, it came with the XVR-600, which unfortunately only has a single
>monitor output.

>Can I put an additional XVR-100 and use it with the XVR-600 for dual
>monitor display?

Yes. But you can't use xinerama unless both cards are identical.

Casper
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Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
> Mothra <mothra@mothra.com> writes:
>
>
>>My company bought me a SunBlade 1500 recently and instead of the XVR-100
>>card, it came with the XVR-600, which unfortunately only has a single
>>monitor output.
>
>
>>Can I put an additional XVR-100 and use it with the XVR-600 for dual
>>monitor display?
>
>
> Yes. But you can't use xinerama unless both cards are identical.
>
Ah, that's a shame. I should have checked this more carefully when
ordering.

I guess I'll have to send the XVR-600 back for something more suitable,
so could you tell me what the cheapest solution for xinerama support
*and* 3D graphics would be? As I understand it the XVR-100 is 2D only.

Ideally it would be 2 cards that are worth no more than a single
XVR-600! ;-)

Mothra wrote:
> Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
> > Mothra <mothra@mothra.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >>My company bought me a SunBlade 1500 recently and instead of the XVR-100
> >>card, it came with the XVR-600, which unfortunately only has a single
> >>monitor output.
> >
> >
> >>Can I put an additional XVR-100 and use it with the XVR-600 for dual
> >>monitor display?
> >
> >
> > Yes. But you can't use xinerama unless both cards are identical.
> >
> Ah, that's a shame. I should have checked this more carefully when
> ordering.
>
> I guess I'll have to send the XVR-600 back for something more suitable,
> so could you tell me what the cheapest solution for xinerama support
> *and* 3D graphics would be? As I understand it the XVR-100 is 2D only.
>
> Ideally it would be 2 cards that are worth no more than a single
> XVR-600! ;-)


I used an XVR600 and an XVR500 in xinerama mode for a while on
a SB1500 silver. also used an XVR500 and Expert3D Lite in
Xinerama mode on a SB1500 red.

//Lars

Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
>
> Yes. But you can't use xinerama unless both cards are identical.
>
> Casper

What gives you that idea? xinerama only insists on having the same
number of pixels on the side the displays connect. It's a while since I
had two monitors connected to my U10, but I did briefly have xinerama
running with the crappy m64 and a Creator3D card doing one screen each.

My PC (x86 Linux box) even runs different resolutions/aspect ratios on
the screens (1280x1024 on the one, 1600x1024 on the other). xinerama
really is quite flexible

dion_b <dion_b@nospam.no> writes:

>What gives you that idea? xinerama only insists on having the same
>number of pixels on the side the displays connect. It's a while since I
>had two monitors connected to my U10, but I did briefly have xinerama
>running with the crappy m64 and a Creator3D card doing one screen each.

True; but it doesn't really work nicely if both displays don't
have the same sets of visuals associated with them.

>My PC (x86 Linux box) even runs different resolutions/aspect ratios on
>the screens (1280x1024 on the one, 1600x1024 on the other). xinerama
>really is quite flexible

The Solaris Xsun server is somewhat less flexible; while it kinda
works with different displays in Xinerama mode, if the displays
don't support the same sets of visuals you will run into strange
problems.

Casper
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