From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40EC234B.40206@anvil.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:22:35 +0100 From: Dave Lukes User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] TODO lists for Plan 9 References: <6a07576a3c6d3d78b47e476078f6999f@juice.thebigchoice.com> In-Reply-To: <6a07576a3c6d3d78b47e476078f6999f@juice.thebigchoice.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: b85244bc-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > PCI Soundblasters are hens teeth and I've never gotten AC97 to work in soundblaster mode Ahhh: that sounds reason enough! > USB audio doesn't always work Do we know whether it's buggy driver(s) or dodgy h/w? > dual monitor - can't ever have enough screen Dunno about that (have you ever been on a bank trading floor:-), but a second is always useful. The question is: do we treat them as separate screens or as one huge screen? I much prefer the latter, since otherwise you can't have huge windows BUT ... > both same resolution would be a bit duff though If you don't have both screens the same resolution (and colour depth!), then the shenanigans needed to tessellate the screens become tedious. For example, if you slide a big window across the join onto a lower res. screen, you have to either lose some part of the window, or scale it (yuk!). Similarly moving the mouse and drawing windows across the join both become problematical (to say nothing of eyestrain inducing). > I do like the NxM approach, be great to have arbitrary monitors plonked around the place Exactly: when you've got enough width and height in your workplace, you can have 2x2 arrays of 19 inch screens: I've seen that done with X on a Sun, and it's WAAAAAY cool. (Also, if you gotta join them side-by-side, the extra work to do it up-down is not a lot). Dave.