How to do 8x8 multihead X11 display

byhisdeeds · 09-24-2008, 02:46 PM

Hi, Can anyone say how I should go about implementing a 8x8 multi-head display system on my fedora core 9 box. I want to be able to project my desktop over a 8x8 matrix of 19" monitors.

John

Matir · 09-24-2008, 05:07 PM

I'm not sure this is physically possible. I've never seen a graphics card supporting more than 2 monitors, so you'd need 32 graphics cards in a single computer, and I've also never seen a motherboard with 32 expansion slots.

Matir · 09-24-2008, 05:10 PM

Additionally, you may want to look into the work being done at: http://www.plastk.net/ and http://dmx.sourceforge.net/ .

jlliagre · 09-24-2008, 06:20 PM

Have a look at the Xdmx (Distributed Multi-head X11 proxy server) that allows this kind of configuration although you'll need more than one computer as Matir already stated.

byhisdeeds · 09-25-2008, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by jlliagre

Have a look at the Xdmx (Distributed Multi-head X11 proxy server) that allows this kind of configuration although you'll need more than one computer as Matir already stated.

Thats fine. XDMX seems like it might do what I want but I'm unclear about the following. If I have four boxes say, each with one monitor attached, and one other being my application box, do I run xdmx on the application box, which in turn will communicate the required display stuff to the four display monitor boxes. Thus on my application box the X instance will be working with a display resolution as defined in the xdmx config file.

John