Re: [RDD] Slightly OT: future directions

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:18:26AM -0400, Fred Gleason wrote:
> > I'm pondering the
> > potential of 2 vertically stacked LCD's, the lower one at a shallow
> > angle from horizontal and with a touchscreen.
> 
> I've used a dual monitor setup here for a couple of years now.  Works well, 
> with one caveat (which may or may not be significant to you):  the 
> touchscreen driver will work with only one monitor.  It looks like getting 
> dual head touchscreen support will require hacking XFree86.  More uses for my 
> Copious Spare Time...  :) 

No, I meant stacked vertically; with the lower one serving as the
"keyboard", and the upper one for email, patter, station notes, general
computer stuff.

> > Does AirPlay currently understand the idea that there
> > may be more than one daemon?  or does the daemon do multi-channel
> > inherently? 
> 
> I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 'multi-channel'.  It will drive 
> multiple architectures (e.g. HPI and JACK) simultaneously, if that's what you 
> mean.  I've done tests here with RDAirPlay doing segue crossfades back and 
> forth between an ASI card and JACK.  Works fine.

On reflection, I think that the answer is "multiple AirPlay's, each
talking to a different daemon".  I can't capsulize my followup
question yet, so I'll postpone it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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