On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:11:40AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 17:07 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > I am having a post Februaray Powerbook5,6 here with German keyboard > > > > Someone told me that xorg releases could do external SVGA mirroring > > for the previous powerbook models 15" with ati. Did somebody test this > > with the new February Powerbook 15" model? > > It should work Trying 6.8.2 I have problems. (there are nice instructions to compile it on http://blogs.vislab.usyd.edu.au/index.php/Steve/2004/09/09/installing_a_non_intrusive_x ) It seems that most options of Mirroring and the CRT2 in the radeon drivers need to use MergeFB. However so far I can only see something if I specify Option "UseFBDev" "true" and thus MergeFB gets disabled. When MergeFB is in place, even without error messages I have a black laptop screen (with one horizontal dark line in the lower part). Whether I have a second screen attached or not makes no difference. Trying multihead with two Screens after the example from http://www.johnleach.co.uk/documents/powerpc/XF86Config-4.dualhead also was not successful. I tried with VGA Flatpanel what has 1280x1024 dimensions. This was also unsuccessful. When enabling UseFBDev for the second screen then I could see something on it: Moving the mouse. Still it was not working in a way that it could be used at all. What should I try to come closer to a useful Mirror mode? Can somebody confirm that UseFBDev is required for the laptop panel? > > lspci -v > > 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > > Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] > > Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 48 > > Memory at b8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] > > I/O ports at 802400 [size=256] > > Memory at b0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > > Expansion ROM at f1000000 [disabled] [size=128K] > > Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 > > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
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