Re: Status of radeonfb in 2.5?

["Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>]

On Mit, 2002-10-16 at 22:55, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> 
> 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.

I think it should theoretically work, but as always the only way to tell
is to try it. :)


> 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.

If the X driver supports Option "UseFBDev", you should be able to use
fbset with that.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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