Re: external Display and FBDev
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 12:30 +0200, Francesco Ciocchetti wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 01:20 +0200, Carsten Friede wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi.
> >>
> >>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!
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Yes, radeonfb can't do dual head (yet)
> >
> >
> Do you mean i have to use readeonfb in boot loader config?
No, you are already using radeonfb I think, it's just can't do dual
display, so you need to configure X not to use it. That is basically not
using "UseFBDev" option :)
> 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 :)
Well, building X on top of a distro is a bit nasty... best is probably
for somebody to make useable debian packages of it :)
Ben.
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