Re: Radeon 7000/VE Dual-head

[Svetoslav S. <sv...@gm...>]

> On Wednesday 07 July 2004 01:04, Rodrigo Madera wrote:
> > Hello everyone. I come here again to ask for help once more and to get
> > some help from you guys again.
> > 
> > Right now I am very satisfied with the presented solution and with the
> > support from all of you for my multi head question done before.
> > 
> > Now I am using a Radeon 7000/VE Dual-head (two connectors on one card)
> > board. XFree detected it normally. When do a startx the monitors are
> > identical. So I created Screen0 + Screen1 and divided them using a
> > layout. Example:
> > I want some help as how to activate the monitors independently like a 'X
> > --some-nice-options-here Screen0' and so on.
> 
> some-nice-options-here does not exists. Configuration desrcibed by You
> works only on matrox, because matrox drivers is very tuned under linux.

and IMO, even on matrox, there is no clean way to do it
in case you don't use the X fbdev driver :(

(well, i keep saying it, but anyway matrox's MMS series
 should teorethically work OK with X mga driver and acceleration,
 as every other (if any) card with multiple graphic chips on it )

i guess you need a second card

 
> In theory , may be Radeon 7000/VE Dual-head can handle two
> separate framebuffers. Then user can start two separate X on framebuffers.
> 
> Runs radeonfb on each head separately?
> 

IIRC radeonfb doesn't support multihead, and supporting multihead
is not very high in the todo list of BenH :(

best,

svetljo

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