On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: >Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:24:16 -0700 (PDT) >From: Alex Deucher <agd5f@xxxxxxxxx> >To: xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Reply-To: xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Subject: Re: Configuring 4-heads with Radeon 7500 RV2P > >I suppose you can have any number of cards. There's no limit that I >know of (well actually I think there is a NUM_SCREENS value somewhere >(I think it's 16?), but that can be increased). I've never tested with >more than one card myself. Increasing MAXSCREENS (in misc.h) will basically break the server. While the protocol allows 256 screens IIRC, the server is hard coded to use 16, and changing this will break many things including ABI compatibility. Also, many resources are allocated based on MAXSCREENS, so changing it would increase the memory usage of the server even without having more screens. In short, many parts of the server need refactoring, dynamic allocation of resources, and other tweaks before MAXSCREENS can be changed. It's something unlikely to happen before XFree86 5.0 development. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
