i810/intel drivers with VGA SDVO

[Jesse Barnes]

On Friday, November 30, 2007 7:13 am Chris Sykes wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 15:29 +0100, Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote:
> > hi!
> >
> > > I'm having trouble enabling dual-head (not cloned) video output
> > > using the on-board intel 945G graphics chipset and a plug-in PCIe
> > > SDVO card. Both outputs are analogue VGA.
> >
> > i had the same goal and it took me nearly a week to come up with a
> > working xorg.conf. i use the latest intel driver from git and the
> > following conf works for me:
>
> What platform/distro are you using?  If it's centos 5, how painful
> was it getting the pre-requisites for building the latest driver.  I
> was under the impression that the latest intel driver would require a
> newer X server release than is included in centos 5 (7.1.1).

Hm, yeah it might.  The driver in CentOS 5 depends on the video BIOS to 
setup outputs and modes.  It sounds like yours doesn't support the 
config you want.  The newer driver programs this stuff directly, so 
it's a lot more flexible, but like you say it depends on some new code 
in the server.

Jesse