Bug#444433: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Xinerama and Dualhead won't work with new intel driver (old i810 worked)

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 22:45:07 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
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>> I guess it's the same problem than #443274 with intel instead of the ati
>> driver.
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> I don't think so. With the intel driver, the server crashes as soon as
> you have an Option "Xinerama" "on" in your xorg.conf, even if it is a
> simple single head configuration. The server just dies with a backtrace
> in the log file.
>
> This bug corresponds to
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10299 in the upstream BTS.
>   

This one is NOT going to ever be fixed, just forget about it.

What might be fixed one day is RandR support for multiple boards (!=
multiple displays), and that's what you seemed to be talking about
earlier, that's what #443274 is about.

Brice