Summer of code
Matthieu Herrb
matthieu.herrb at laas.fr
Fri Mar 13 13:38:20 PDT 2009
Bill Crawford wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 March 2009 15:14:20 Matthias Hopf wrote:
> ...
>> That is probably not in SoC's way (too little invention), and probably
>> still difficult (if at all possible) to achieve. Or trivial. Probably
>> nobody knows.
>
> Well, currently it mostly looks like bugs in the conversion to libpciaccess, and
> now some issue with the int10 mechanism. Everything goes black, usually, but I
> did manage to get the second screen to light up with severely corrupted display
> by disabling DRI in xorg.conf ...
>
It's more than bugs in libpciaccess conversion. A lot of useful code was
deleted and cannot simply be brought back because things changed a lot
since the code was removed.
I agree with Matthias that this needs a new design, but also that this
is really important. Many users miss the multi-card multihead support.
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Matthieu Herrb
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