Re: Re: Framebuffer vt's second monitor ATI 9000

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 08:14, Kronos wrote:
> Il Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:52:36PM +0100, Javier Vizcaino ha scritto: 
> > : > Questions:
> > : > -Is it possible to have framebuffer based vt's on the second connector of the ATI board?
> > : > -How should I proceed (modules, options, etc)?
> > : 
> > : I don't think radeonfb does real multi-head yet.
> > 
> > **** If you ever find some info about this, or if it is other the module for it,
> > please let me know.
> 
> Ben Herrenschmidt is working on a new version of the driver (see
> bk://ppc.bkbits.net/linuxppc-2.5-benh). Multihead support is not there
> yet, but it's in the TODO list. 

Definitely. I'm not yet sure how I'll deal with some issues related
to multihead, like enabling/disabling mirroring, telling XFree (when
using UseFBDev) which /dev/fbs are multiple heads of the same card,
etc... All that is basically lacking in the fbdev API at this point.

I'm also a bit swamped with work lately so I had to put my radeonfb
work on hold for a while. Of course, any help on that is welcome ;)

Ben.




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