From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: Re: Status of radeonfb in 2.5? Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:21:29 -0400 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <3DACA222.5030409@netscape.net> <20021016223613.17897@192.168.4.1> <3DADD22F.9030508@netscape.net> <1034808341.1229.282.camel@tibook> Reply-To: nwourms@netscape.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 182axm-0002Ml-00 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:31:06 -0700 Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 182awp-0003YL-00 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:30:07 +0200 Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Michel D=E4nzer wrote: > On Mit, 2002-10-16 at 22:55, Nicholas Wourms wrote: >>=20 >> A) Is it (or will it ever be) possible to run dual head >> using two different cards (like radeon & riva-tnt2)? I know >> there is still much work to be done, but I was curious if >> this was even remotely possible. >=20 > I think it should theoretically work, but as always the only way to tell > is to try it. :) Well there isn't much on multiheading in the documentation, so I was hoping= =20 for some hints or key insights into how to set this up. Is there any=20 special magic that the matrox people use to thell the kernel to initialize = both framebuffers? >=20 >> B) Does anyone have a painless, yet precise way of >> generating modelines for fb.modes if you are using >> XFree-4.2? I only ask because the XFree modelines are all >> determined by i2c DDC probing, thus there are none in the >> XF86Config file. >=20 > If the X driver supports Option "UseFBDev", you should be able to use > fbset with that. >=20 Huh? The problem is that fbset will not work because I need to populate=20 fb.modes with proper mode lines. So at the moment fbset won't work at all.= =20 What I was asking, since the documention was written when XFree 3.x was=20 still in use, was how do I get (calculate) the modelines for fb.modes=20 based on the information the i2c DDC probing XFree-4.2.1 outputs in=20 XFree.0.log? Or is there a better way? What might be cool is if the fb=20 drivers used the lm-sensors(i2c) capabilities to automagically probe the=20 information and set up the most optimal settings. Maybe I'm talking too=20 much about something I'm not all that familiar with... Still, it would be = nice =3D). Cheers, Nicholas ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf