From: Frank V. D. <fra...@st...> - 2003-01-05 16:59:28
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On Sunday 05 January 2003 07:25, ProctorSilex wrote: > hi, i'm thinking about setting up a cave using at least two radeon 7500 > pci cards. with dual head on each, there'd be four heads in that > setup... >=20 > regardless of my hardware specifics, it seems that dri isn't ready for > multihead. i've seen nothing in the documentation, and the mailing list= s > only seem to have failures and partial successes (just getting the > second card recognized). > > i'm curious to know what's going on with multihead and dri. are there > issues with dri or is it just a matter of the lack of interest by most > people? in the latter case, i might mess with the code this summer. It's a matter of interest in having dri AND multihead work at the same ti= me.=20 The radeon 8500 drivers don't do this (yet). I have no idea about the 750= 0=20 drivers, but I think it might be worth upgrading to Xfree86 4.3 once it's= =20 out.=20 > as a side note, it seems that the ati radeon drivers are binary only. i= s > ati keeping the sources secret like nvidia? They are making a radeon driver (aimed mostly at fire gl users afaik) but= they=20 also give specs (under NDA) to X developpers. Not perfect, but OK anyway.= =20 Frank |