Problem with vesa driver

[René Rebe]

Hi,

I wonder why Ashish is trying to use the vesa driver when there is a rather
"superb" native Intel driver ... ?

Alan Hourihane wrote:
> 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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