Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 01:15, Jonas Borgström wrote:
Michel Dänzer wrote:
Even without 3D hardware acceleration, the radeon driver offers much
more than the fbdev driver, e.g. 2D acceleration, XVideo, multihead, ...
Speaking of multihead. Have anyone managed to get mulihead working on a
Powerbook 15" with a radeon 9600 card?
I've tried both XFree86 4.4rc1 and the xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk package.
It (xinerama) almost works but the dvi-output is distorted.
The external monitor seems to have the same distortions as these pictures:
Do you hvae "UseFBDev" enabled ? You shouldn't for multihead...
No, I use this configuration:
http://bobcat.edgewall.com/~jonas/powerbook/XF86Config-4
If I remember correctly the output on the DVI connection might look like
the picture
I got when I tried to get XFree86 to work with a 2.4 kernel.
It is hard to describe how the screen looks like but:
It looks like the framebuffer isn't sent by the ramdac in a linear
fashion. The screen gets
divided into tiles of the 32x32 pixels or something. If a small window
(xlogo) is placed in
the top left corner I see parts of the window scattered all the way to
right hand side of
the screen.
The cursor is drawn ok though but I guess it is because it's a hardware
cursor.
If I look at the monitor before starting X I see some text from the
kernel boot. It looks
like the text the kernel prints just as it starts booting (initializing
radeondb). This is
displayed without the "effect" I tried to describe above.
/ Jonas
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