xorg Digest, Vol 36, Issue 74

[Ashish Jain]

Hi,

Yes, we are trying to get multi-head on X117.1.

Is it possible to get multi-head support on X117.1 (Asianux server 3)
with VESA driver using Xinerama?


Thanks & Regards
   Ashish Jain
 




Message: 2
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:33:37 +0300
From: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with vesa driver
To: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de>
Cc: xorg at freedesktop.org
Message-ID: <20080711113337.GD10919 at fooishbar.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

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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