From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 10:21:52 +0100 Subject: Re: External Monitor under Pismo From: "Iain Sandoe" To: Tuomas Kuosmanen , "E. Jason Stewart" Cc: Andrew Sharp , "E. Jason Stewart" , debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, stewart.sadler@roke.co.uk, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-Id: <20010404092143.EFE4C2F01B@apollo.valhalla.net> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >> Since I'm mirroring the LCD I only get 1024x768, and the pismo can >> drive a 1600x1200@16 bit depth. So what needs to happen to aty128fb.c >> to support the external monitor, and what can I do to make it happen?? >> > > That is beyond *me* but maybe someone else knows. I am just the artist > dude 'round the corner who likes to hack with perl and stuff.. :-) > > I think there is no support for the external monitor in that sense in > the driver. In macos it can do real dualhead, so that would be possible > at least in theory, and it would be pretty nice. But currently I think > the mirrored display is all we have for Pismo. Which works nice for > projectors though. My understanding is that it still needs adding - as a first step you need someone who has signed the NDA to get the specs for the ATI chips... and understands how to write X servers... ;-) you could try asking Ani Joshi? ciao, Iain. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/