Well to semi-off topic just go buy the dell, same hardware is inside both as far as I can tell, only difference is the shell and the Apple stamp on it. That was the main reason behind me buying Dell's 24 incher instead of the Apple equivalent.
Well the issue with this, at least with nVidia's hardware and I suspect with ATI's as well is that the drivers don't allow you to add monitors from separate video cards into the same span. I tested this with dual 6800GTs with 2 monitors on one card and another on the second and while the first two spanned together fine (running SWG at 2560x1024 was pretty sweet if annoying thanks to the seam) you could not add the third into it at all. I tried everything, apart from setting them up in SLI (don't ask why cause I don't know why I didn't).
Out of all the things I've tried (VMWare, DOSEmu, FreeDOS, etc) the only way I've been able to get dos titles working perfectly is on old hardware with straight DOS. It's sad, but nothing else works well. I'm lucky in the fact I've got an old P200 with a serial mouse and ISA SoundBlaster card just for that purpose. Biggest pain though is VMWare don't even bother.
I had Gentoo with NPTL working, but it was when they first got the ebuilds and it was just a test. I didn't do an upgrade though either as I bootstrapped an nptl/gcc-3.3/linux-2.6.0 system from scratch. Only thing that was a little flaky that I could tell was X, but X has always been flaky on that particular computer so I couldn't tell if it was X or something else as everything else ran fine (which admittedly wasn't much).
Well I don't know about the rest of you folks but all the lan parties I've been to have had chicks, beer, StarCraft (et al) and Babylon 5 for a few days.
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Well to semi-off topic just go buy the dell, same hardware is inside both as far as I can tell, only difference is the shell and the Apple stamp on it. That was the main reason behind me buying Dell's 24 incher instead of the Apple equivalent.
Well the issue with this, at least with nVidia's hardware and I suspect with ATI's as well is that the drivers don't allow you to add monitors from separate video cards into the same span. I tested this with dual 6800GTs with 2 monitors on one card and another on the second and while the first two spanned together fine (running SWG at 2560x1024 was pretty sweet if annoying thanks to the seam) you could not add the third into it at all. I tried everything, apart from setting them up in SLI (don't ask why cause I don't know why I didn't).
Out of all the things I've tried (VMWare, DOSEmu, FreeDOS, etc) the only way I've been able to get dos titles working perfectly is on old hardware with straight DOS. It's sad, but nothing else works well. I'm lucky in the fact I've got an old P200 with a serial mouse and ISA SoundBlaster card just for that purpose. Biggest pain though is VMWare don't even bother.
I had Gentoo with NPTL working, but it was when they first got the ebuilds and it was just a test. I didn't do an upgrade though either as I bootstrapped an nptl/gcc-3.3/linux-2.6.0 system from scratch. Only thing that was a little flaky that I could tell was X, but X has always been flaky on that particular computer so I couldn't tell if it was X or something else as everything else ran fine (which admittedly wasn't much).
Obligatory Indiana Jones reference:
ASPs.. Very dangerous. You go first, Indie.
Trebuchet.
All you need is TCL/TK which (for those that don't know) is available for every major platform.
Actually there's something else you have to do, or else the modules won't be loaded:
emerge module-init-tools
Well I don't know about the rest of you folks but all the lan parties I've been to have had chicks, beer, StarCraft (et al) and Babylon 5 for a few days.