From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:10:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:10:05 -0500 Received: from smtp3.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.27]:28056 "EHLO mwinf0402.wanadoo.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:10:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:21:23 +0200 To: Alan Cox Cc: Sven Luther , Petr Vandrovec , James Simmons , Linux Fbdev development list , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH]: EDID parser Message-ID: <20030403162123.GA17123@iliana> References: <4E5C514B42@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> <20030403141530.GA8858@iliana> <1049383273.11742.0.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1049383273.11742.0.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Sven Luther Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:21:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2003-04-03 at 15:15, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Read is not enough. If you have connected one /dev/fbx to two monitors, > > > you must find highest common denominator for them, and use this one. > > > > Err, i don't understand this ? Do you mean you are outputing to two > > monitors at the same time ? > > I think you mean lowest common denominator. > > > If that is so maybe you mean, speaking in graphic card terminology, and > > not in fbdev one, that you are sharing one common framebuffer between > > two outputs, right, possibly doing mirroring tricks or something such ? > > Classic example is a SiS 6326 driving monitor and TV. You need to keep > the display to TV acceptable ranges. You mean, driving both display with the same ramdac ? Friendly, Sven Luther