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Binary-only kernel modules may be banned

Binary-only kernel modules may be banned

Posted Dec 14, 2006 20:42 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Binary-only kernel modules may be banned by mightyduck
Parent article: Binary-only kernel modules may be banned

Ya well you don't have much choice then.

I have a ATI x800 that I have use Free software drivers for because I need 3d acceleration more then what the onboard Intel offers. I use the DRI r300 driver, which are mostly stable and give good performance.

It can do dual out. But I haven't tried it yet, but I've seen people online that successfully run that configuration.

Beleive me when I say that I've been seriously considuring getting a nvidia card because the free software drivers just aren't that fast, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.


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Binary-only kernel modules may be banned

Posted Dec 15, 2006 0:25 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Oh another option, probably kinda insane (like you realy want to have 4 computers to build one display)

But if you realy want MEGA displays its worth looking at.

DMX + Chromium.

Distributed multihead X will turn a cluster of machines into one big display.

Chromium will make 3d acceleration work across all of them.

http://chromium.sourceforge.net/doc/dmx.html

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