On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@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+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@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
