RE: [Linuxconsole-dev] writeup

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Brad Midgley wrote:

> > At the present, I suggest a master/slave[x] designation somewhere in fbdev
> > and have data destined for the console spew onto the master.  I'll talk with
> 
> another thing people want to see is mirroring to two monitors (eg on a
> laptop with an external projector connected). it makes the most sense to
> have the kernel doing it (rather than, say, trying to hack X to drive two
> different framebuffers with the same image)

Have the kernel handle this would be messy. Have a api that allows a
userland app to piece it together would be cleaner and easier to manage.


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