3. Getting started
Barco – Eos X Terminal – DOC-3061-2 – user's manual – Revision 11 – November-2004
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Multi-screen server display layout
In multi-screen-mode the display wall is operated as a single large display area. Refer to section
for a more detailed description, please!
The arrangement of the connected projection modules is specified in the form:
<w>x<h>
Here
<w>
and
<h>
give the number of columns and rows. For example:
4x2
4 monitors next to each other, 2 monitors on top of each other.
Configuring the Monolithic X Server Display Mode
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1: Multi Screen
2: Multi Head
Enter the X Server Screen mode [1]: 1
Configuring the Monolithic X Server Multiscreen Arrangement
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Enter the Multi Screen Arrangement (Width x Height) [2x1]: 4x2
These are your Output Device settings
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- Graphic Card: AGX-3281
- Output Device: digital
- Screen Configuration : MultiScreen (4x2)
Everything correct? (yes/no)? [yes]: y
X Server General Settings
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Please enter the required settings for
- Visual Depth
- Visual Class
- X Server's background RGB values
- XDM
- Font Server
Depth resolution
Specifying the depth resolution tells X.11 how many colors you want to use.
Configuring the Depth Resolution (Bit Per Pixel)
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1 - for 8 bpp (256 colors)
2 - for 16 bpp (64K colors)
3 - for 8 and 16 bpp (MultiDepth/MultiColor feature)
Usable only for resolution up to 1400x1050
4 - for 32 bpp (16M colors)
Enter the Depth Resolution [3]: 3
Dependent on the configuration and the requirements for video the depth resolution must be selected. An ex-
tensive overview about correlation between settings of X.11 and the display of video as well as an explanation
of multi-color-depth is given in section
4.2.2 Color capabilities of Eos
. An overview about bandwidth requirements of
video and RGB in dependence of color depth is given in section
Visual class
Specifying a visual class tells X.11 how to handle colors. This is only asked if you selected above the numbers
2
or
4
. Refer also to section
for a more detailed description, please!
