Re: TiBook Dual Display
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 20:51, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Gregory P. Keeney wrote:
> > What are the issues preventing a Dual Head X configuration on a TiBook
> > (1st generation, i.e., Rage128 Mobility).
>
> Lack of developer manpower (did you just volunteer to do it?). The
> technical specs are available to XFree members, the kernel infrastructure
> required to support mutiple framebuffers is in place for ages. Just make
> aty128fb register two separate framebuffers,
I question if it would be a good idea to do it on the framebuffer
device level at this time, because you'd have to either virtualize the
the accel engine or only be able to use acceleration on one head in X,
partition the video RAM statically between the heads, ...
> X gurus please correct me if the current X release already supports
> Xinereama on rage128 out of the box
It doesn't, but Ani was working on it at one point. Don't know if he's
got anything working yet.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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