hel
Mon Jul 24 11:51:13 CDT 2006
UE [Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:31:10 +0200]:
>I know of one setup where the second monitor in a multihead setup is not
>hardware-accelerated,
Or, it's rotated to portrait mode by the display
driver. Even though the display is accelerated,
the drawing is slow since the transform is done
by the software, which makes it an unaccelerated,
then accelerated blit (o). That's the main reason
I use a PCI video card -- there's no slowdown on
the main display (plus you can put two on the PCI).
I noticed when I had a second display on the main
card, the main display would slow. Not so any
more. There aren't many choices in PCI video
cards, but what there is should be plenty good.
If it's the same make as the main video card,
one display driver does it all. It makes the
IDE somewhat easier to use, since you're not
cramped for space. A wide-screen helps, too.
Three displays is even better.
Portait mode is great for PDFs since those are
usually in book format, with a page fitting
the screen fully.
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