External Devices and Displays

[mbvdlza]

Hey everyone.

well, I am posting this after a few days of thinking and cursing.

It started at my friends place when we set up his projector, and trying to get cockpit instruments on a small lcd monitor.

We then found out, if I read correctly, that it is impossible to have multiple displays on Xplane, and that you need to buy multiple licensed copies, or have multiple computers...

To me, the above is nothing else than absurd and insane!

So do I understand correctly, having multiple screens is a no no?

All that I would like to achieve is to have a seperate display for instruments, on monitor 2 for instance.

Failing that, I will have to buy external USB instruments or modify and use something like this:

http://www.omnima.co.uk/store/catalog/Programmable-LCD-display-control-panel-version-2-p-16158.html

What's your thoughts, and how do you lot do it?

One monitor just does NOT cut it

Marlon

[benny]

don't know if it's still working with latest xplane versions, but this is just what you want :

http://www.x-plane.fr/showthread.php?47732-DLG-Cockpit-%28Mac-Ubuntu-Windows%29

[mbvdlza]

thanks benny

seems to be the best aaproach. i tried some external apps that connect to xplane but there appears to always be better solutions.

[PascalL]

Hi !

I see you have Debian installed.

With two video cards, I tried this solution for Linux, and it works perfectly well !

Apparently, it even works with only one card, see second post. But I guess you'd better have multicore CPU because you still have to start two X-Plane processes.

Hope this helps !

Benny, thanks for reminding me the excellent app developed at french forum ! I'll try that right away !

Pascal