R128 on Mac Powerbook (Pismo)

Brian Victor bhv1 at psu.edu
Sun Nov 14 15:02:35 PST 2004


On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 05:49:33PM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:43:58 -0500, Brian Victor <bhv1 at psu.edu> wrote:
>>   2) I attempted a dual head setup.  The cursor will move off the right
>>      side of the screen, but the external display isn't getting a
>>      signal.  However, using m3mirror does turn the external display on,
>>      though of course in mirror mode rather than "spanned desktop."  Do
>>      I need to do something to turn the external display on?
>By default on ppc the r128 driver uses fbdev for mode setup.  you need
>to explicitly turn it off with:
>Option "UseFBDev" "false"
>in both your device sections so that the driver can set the modes
>itself.  Thanks for testing this!

Tried that and Xorg bailed with an error about being unable to read
V_BIOS.  I put updated conf and log at the same url with .2 suffixes.

>> Log and conf files are at http://brianhv.org/xorgfiles/

-- 
Brian



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