Re: m3mirror for iBook 2 ?
On Sam, 2002-09-28 at 13:46, James Hollingshead wrote:
> 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,
You could put it up somewhere along with the log file to verify that.
> or because the radeon xfree86 driver just doesn't support it properly yet.
It does, and people have gotten it to work with TiBooks, but it's
possible that Apple built additional hurdles into the iBooks.
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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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