From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: "Andrew Sharp" Cc: "Iain Sandoe" , "Tuomas Kuosmanen" , "E. Jason Stewart" , debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, stewart.sadler@roke.co.uk, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: External Monitor under Pismo References: <20010404092143.EFE4C2F01B@apollo.valhalla.net> <3ACB537B.99B851B9@netfall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.5) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: jason@openinformatics.com (Jason E. Stewart) Date: 04 Apr 2001 11:43:23 -0700 In-Reply-To: "Andrew Sharp"'s message of "Wed, 04 Apr 2001 10:01:47 -0700" Message-ID: <87hf0433qs.fsf@amadeus.openinformatics.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: "Andrew Sharp" writes: > One has to question whether anyone would be interested in adding > this to a frame buffer driver, assuming that it isn't already > there. Perhaps you would be able to get a lot more direct info from > another list, like one dedicated more to laptops or X. X has radically changed from XF3 to XF4. The limit of my X hacking was identifying some patches to the mouse driver code so that multiple mice could be used independantly. I've never worked with video drivers. I don't really want to now, I just want Rage driver to support my external video port, and if that means writing it myself I'm willing to learn. I'm just looking for the correct person/people to pester in order to get started. Ani Joshi sounds like a good starting person, Michel Danzer, maybe? > I've actually seen an XF86Config for driving the external monitor at > different resolution(s) from the LCD, but I can't find that info at > the moment. I don't know if it works with the frame buffer > server/driver, but I know that it works with the mach64 server for > 3.3.6. If I could find it, it would be worth trying.... Don't know. I need XF4 and Rage128. jas. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/