Re: m3mirror for iBook 2 ?

[James Hollingshead <james@hollo.org>]

On Fri, 27th Sept Michel Danzer wrote:
> On Fre, 2002-09-27 at 10:49, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> > OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du vendredi 27 septembre 2002, vers 01:52,
> > James Hollingshead <james@hollo.org> disait:
> > 
> > > The only progress is that now if I attach the external monitor to my
> > > iBook the monitor comes out of sleep mode, whereas before putting the
> > > second device section into XF86Config it would stay powered
> > > down. Obviously some sort of VGA signal is being sent out, but the
> > > external screen remains blank.
> > 
> > I have the same symptoms if the second screen is configured without
> > UseFBDev. With UseFBDev, it stays powered down...
>
> Multihead can't work with UseFBDev on either head because radeonfb only
> drives one head yet.

Can Multihead work at the moment without UseFBDev though? I'm unsure
whether I can't get VGA out to work because my config file isn't quite
correct, or because the radeon xfree86 driver just doesn't support it
properly yet. If the latter then is support for vga-out being worked
on, or does it rely on some nasty proprietry protocol that we're never
going to get our hands on?

Just trying to decide whether I need to free up some space for a
reinstall of MacOS X for doing presentations.

Thanks,
James