linux-fbdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@code-monkey.de>
To: "Hans-Jürgen Koch" <hjk@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, xorg@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Matrox G550, dual head, 1680x1050
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 07:59:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070305065911.GA1017@code-monkey.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703042247.21590.hjk@linutronix.de>


[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1053 bytes --]

Hans-Jürgen Koch [2007-03-04 22:47]:
> @matroxfb developers: Thanks a lot, guys! Well done! Most people I asked about 
> having a dual-head framebuffer console at 1680x1050 thought it would be 
> impossible.
> 
> @mga xorg developers: Well... Can you tell me why the kernel guys can 
> initialize and use the second head and you can't? If you can give me hints 
> where in the source I can start to look for the bug, I'm willing to spend 
> some time there. Is there something I could try in my configuration?

matroxfb is much better organized wrt dual-head configurations. It also
has support for some hardware that xf86-video-mga doesn't support yet.
I'm working on that.

I think you might be hitting this bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9854

I just attached a temporary fix that you could try.

Regards,
Tilman

-- 
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

[-- Attachment #1.2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --]

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 143 bytes --]

_______________________________________________
xorg mailing list
xorg@lists.freedesktop.org
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-05  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200703021053.00955.hjk@linutronix.de>
     [not found] ` <200703021610.58188.hjk@linutronix.de>
     [not found]   ` <20070302152414.GC907@code-monkey.de>
2007-03-04 21:47     ` Matrox G550, dual head, 1680x1050 Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-03-05  4:59       ` Petr Vandrovec
2007-03-05  6:33         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-03-05  8:09           ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Michel Dänzer
2007-03-05  7:34         ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-03-05 20:02         ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-03-06  9:25           ` Petr Vandrovec
2007-03-06  9:38             ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-03-06  9:48             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-03-06 11:35               ` Petr Vandrovec
2007-03-05  6:59       ` Tilman Sauerbeck [this message]
2007-03-01 23:25 Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-03-01 23:29 ` Alex Deucher
2007-03-01 23:49   ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-03-01 23:56     ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2007-03-02  1:49     ` Alex Deucher

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20070305065911.GA1017@code-monkey.de \
    --to=tilman@code-monkey.de \
    --cc=hjk@linutronix.de \
    --cc=linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net \
    --cc=xorg@lists.freedesktop.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).