Re: About RM's and channels
Rob Jenkins (robj++at++sgi.com)
Fri, 02 Oct 1998 13:44:14 +0100
Joaquin Casillas Melendez wrote:
>
> Rob Jenkins wrote:
> >
>
> >
> > ircombine can be installed and run on any SGI machine, if you run it up
> > and select a 'target' of 'user defined HW' then edit that HW to have
> > 4RMs ( and 8 channels in your case ) you can try this kind of thing for
> > yourself. I only tried quickly but I reckon you could only do
> > 4x1280x1024 if you drop the swapbuffer rate to 50hz else you exceed
> > bandwidth limits. If you ask for 'deepest' pixels, you get medium depth
> > I think. The max managed area size is 3840 ( which fits OK with what I
> > think you were describing above with the overlap ).
> >
> > Cheers
> > Rob
> >
>
> Hello again.
>
> I have tried some configurations with ircombine, but I have a problem
> with the origin field. The configuration I need is :
>
> Channel 0: size 1280x1024 origin 0,0
> Channel 1: size 1280x1024 origin 1280,0
> Channel 3: size 1280x1024 origin 2560,0
> Channel 4: size 1280x1024 origin 1280,0
>
> The problem is that the origin field doesn't accept these origin values.
> Anyway with 4 1280x1024_60 hz channels the bandwith is exceeded. So I
> will try something like 3 1024x768_60 + 1 1280x1024_60 channel
> configuration. It could be good enough for the visual app.
>
Ah, I think you need to 'edit globals' and make sure that the size of
the managed area is big enough to accomodate the channels in the layout
you describe.
Cheers
Rob
> Thanks for the responses.
>
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