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From: Michel <mi...@da...> - 2002-10-18 19:28:48
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On Fre, 2002-10-18 at 19:21, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > Michel D=E4nzer wrote: >=20 > > On Mit, 2002-10-16 at 22:55, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > >>=20 > >> A) Is it (or will it ever be) possible to run dual head > >> using two different cards (like radeon & riva-tnt2)? I know > >> there is still much work to be done, but I was curious if > >> this was even remotely possible. > >=20 > > I think it should theoretically work, but as always the only way to tel= l > > is to try it. :) >=20 > Well there isn't much on multiheading in the documentation, so I was hopi= ng=20 > for some hints or key insights into how to set this up. Something like video=3Dradeonfb video=3Driva ? > >> B) Does anyone have a painless, yet precise way of > >> generating modelines for fb.modes if you are using > >> XFree-4.2? I only ask because the XFree modelines are all > >> determined by i2c DDC probing, thus there are none in the > >> XF86Config file. > >=20 > > If the X driver supports Option "UseFBDev", you should be able to use > > fbset with that. > >=20 >=20 > Huh? The problem is that fbset will not work because I need to populate=20 > fb.modes with proper mode lines. So at the moment fbset won't work at al= l. =20 I was thinking of running X with Option "UseFBDev" and getting information about the modes with fbset. --=20 Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast |