Problem with vesa driver

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.co.uk
Fri Jul 11 00:44:21 PDT 2008


VESA doesn't support multihead.

Alan.

On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 12:21 +0530, Ashish Jain wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> At present we are trying VESA driver for Multi-monitor support with
> Intel 915GM/GMS, 910GML Express Chipset on Asianux Server 3
> (Xorg-7.1). 
> 
> Following settings are using for “Device” sections in Xorg.conf file.
> 
>  
> 
> Section "Device"
> 
>       Identifier  "Videocard0"
> 
>       Driver      "vesa"
> 
>       BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
> 
> EndSection
> 
>  
> 
> Section "Device"
> 
>       Identifier  "Videocard1"
> 
>       Driver      "vesa"
> 
>       VendorName  "Videocard Vendor"
> 
>       BoardName   "Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express
> Graphics Controller"
> 
>       BusID       "PCI:0:2:1"
> 
>       Screen      1
> 
> EndSection
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> But when we start the Xserver (using command startx -- +xinerama),
> after modifying the xorg.conf file then the server produces following
> error message.
> 
>  
> 
> (EE) VESA(0): No valid modes
> 
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> 
>  
> 
> Fatal server error:
> 
> no screens found
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> 
>     Ashish Jain
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
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