Problem with vesa driver

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Fri Jul 11 04:33:37 PDT 2008


On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 01:20:29PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Ashish Jain wrote:
> > As we know VESA is a generic video driver therefore the VESA driver works on virtually any modern graphics adapter that's why I am trying multi-monitor with VESA driver and according to my investigation it is running well with single monitor. 
> > 
> > Can we use the Intel driver as a generic driver? 
> > Or
> > Do you know any generic driver which support multi-monitor?
> 
> The VESA driver's main purpose is to support chips that lack a native 
> driver or for chips that don't have stable/usable native drivers.  If 
> you have an Intel chip, why do you want to use the VESA driver in the 
> first place?

Because they're trying to get multihead going on X11R7.1.

Cheers,
Daniel
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