[Lvlug] Duall headed system, was: Prolonging the Life of a Hard Drive?

[Mark]

On Monday 05 September 2005 03:53 pm, Randy Kramer wrote:
> On Monday 05 September 2005 02:01 pm, Mark wrote:
> > Jumping in with a Long Story.
>
> Thanks!  Some comments/questions below.
>
> > I was initially running a dual headed system with an NVidia card that had
> > twinview support (works at the hardware level) as you described above.
>
> So, did you notice any performance drop when the two cards replaced the
> NVidia?
>

Not directly.  What that means is any time I tried to run 3d stuff it slowed 
to a crawl because it was all in software. But the regular applications 
didn't cause any slowing down.  I ran with and without xinerama support and 
didn't notice a difference either way.  I do some electronic design work with 
the schematic open on one screen and the circuit board on the other which 
worked absolutely great.

One thing I've noticed on KDesktop with dual heads is whichever screen my 
mouse pointer is currently residing in is the screen on which new windows 
open up.  It's nice to have that little bit of control.

-Mark