Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
<volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am Freitag 28 Oktober 2011, 08:53:40 schrieb Mark Knecht:
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Paul Hartman
>>
>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Amazon streams now but I haven't tried them yet. (Watch out for 'One
>> >> Touch' and accidentally spending money...)
>> >
>> > Amazon streaming works fine in Linux (I've tried it), it just uses the
>> > plain old Adobe Flash plug-in.
>>
>> Therein apparently lies the problem for me. Adobe Flash no longer
>> works on my machine since adding a second video card. I just tried
>> Amazon in Firefox 7 and it just sits doing nothing.
>>
>> I _think_ this is related to using Xinerama on KDE but when I posted
>> questions here (twice) I got no responses so it seems few people are
>> doing this. For my futures trading I need 3 or 4 monitors and I
>> couldn't make sense out of using X without Xinerama so I seem stuck,
>> at least native in Gentoo. I suspect it's fine in a Windows VM but
>> I've got Jimmy Kimmel running at the moment so I'll test that later.
>>
>> I REALLY, REALLY miss having all the OpenGL stuff you get with KDE. I
>> had it with one Nvidia card but not with two...
>>
>> - Mark
>
> you don't need xinerama for multi-monitor setups.
>

Volker,
   I understand that but I'm wondering if you read my post? I stated
'I couldn't make sense out of using X without Xinerama'.

   If you're interested in discussing multiple graphic card,
multi-monitor setups then I'd be more than willing to start another
thread. However that discussion doesn't belong in a thread entitled
"Hard drive RPMs and data speed".

- Mark