re x server multi screen from article apr eafs ca boeing com by ten eafs ca boeing com timothy e neto rainer sun eeam elin co at rainer hochreiter writes i ve seen a lot of different terms which seem to mean the same thing who can give an exact definition what these terms mean multi screen multi headed multi display x server zaphod mode is there a limit how many screens displays a single server can handle in an articel a read something about an upper limit of how is the capability called if i want to move the cursor from one screen display to another as to how many clients may be display on a server i believe the limit would be how much memory is available to your server or allocated by the server this all sounds suspiciously like my company might have something to do with this background first megatek has a series of framebuffers designed as x accelerators for the most part these are designed for sun sbus and sun and other vendor s vme systems that said megatek products support multi screen and or multi display on a sigle workstation most of our cards have a keyboard mouse port which can be used to provide additional displays for example say you hade a sparcstation with an sbus expansion chassis you could put in six frambuffers allowing a total of six screens in the system you could then attach from to keyboard mice allowing you to mix and match any combination of screens and displays you could have screen display screen displays screen displays or screen display and screen display basically any combination because of this we at megatek try to be very careful about the use of the words multi screen and multi display they are quite different in meaning and at least in x have exact definitions the reason i ramble like this is the mention of an upper limit if screens in a display as it so happens there s a define in the server that determines the most screens supported server include misc h maxscreens as released my mit this is as released by megatek this is as such the most screens supported by a single megatek display i e x server is if someone construed this to be a limitation of x i m sorry but clearly as pointed out so well by mr neto this is not the case we just did it here because nobody has ever asked us for more of course i could say buy all you want we ll support more rusty sanders megatek corp rgs megatek com or ucsd hplabs hp sdd ames scubed uunet
