[kaigan]

Hey, everyone,

I had a very long post that I accidentally deleted by pressing the wrong button before submitting it. Oops.

So, short version: inspired by the recent Hackaday article "Could Seven Gamers Play Quake on Just One 1996 SGI Machine?", I decided that I want to try it with my Onyx2 deskside. The IO6G and CADduos in the PCI card cage all show up as input devices, currently giving me five sets. So far, so good.

However, I can't figure out how to configure Xsgi to divide a single graphics board's channels up into displays instead of screens (in the X sense of the word). All of the documentation I can find is either for the Onyx4's XFree86 implementation or how to do it for the CADduo on an Octane with two discrete graphics boards.

I'd appreciate any advice on if this is possible on a single graphics board (the Onyx2's IR3 DG5-8 in this case) and how to do it. Given that the IO6G has two keyboard and mouse inputs itself and the desksides only support one set of IR graphics, I'd think it's possible. I just haven't figured out how.

Thanks!