i810 with modesetting in combination with dualscreen/Xinerama?

Andreas Schildbach andreas at schildbach.de
Thu Dec 14 12:15:30 PST 2006


Eric Anholt wrote:

>> I'm trying to get the modesetting i810 driver to work on a 
>> dualscreen/Xinerama setup. Unfortunately, X doesn't start (log and 
>> xorg.conf attached).
> 
> Dualhead display is currently not supported easily on modesetting.  In
> the modesetting branch we're diking out traditional multihead and
> replacing it with RandR 1.2, which offers more functionality.  It should
> be ready soon.

Just being curious: Is there anything new on this topic?

Regards,

Andreas




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