Re: external Display and FBDev

[Francesco Ciocchetti <primero@fastwebnet.it>]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 01:20 +0200, Carsten Friede wrote:
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>>Hi.
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>>Just for fun, I switched my CRT on the external video connector of my 
>>iBook G4. After trying several options in the XF86Config-4, I disabled 
>>"UseFBDev". Bingo! It works!
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>Yes, radeonfb can't do dual head (yet)
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Do you mean i have to use readeonfb in boot loader config?

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>>But as it is working for my CRT, the display of my iBook doesn't seem 
>>to get synced anymore. So, is there a workaround for this?
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>Yes, use X.org CVS HEAD or X.org 6.8.2 with the patches at
>http://gate.crashing.org/~benh/xorg/ (apply in order given by the series
>file) or look for somebody packaging these for debian (the ubuntu
>packages may be useable).
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Great ... since i really would need it but i'm not so expert in Xorg
configuration ... would it be possible to post the configuration u r
using ?
If yes please CC to my email :)

Thanks
Bye