Re: external Display and FBDev

hm, before sending i had a quick look at it again, and disabled some options that didn't make sense for me (NoMergedCinerama, CRT2Position), now works still, and for now even seems that this cleared some performance issues i was writing about. still i can't use wmi(i) and have to stick with ion3 w

Re: external Display and FBDev

on Sunday 01 May 2005 10:40, Florian Klinglmueller wrote: > b) configure two seperate devices [drop me mail if you want my config] hi, would you mind let me see that config ? thanks ! -- Jorge Salamero Sanz (bencer) mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> blog: http:

Re: external Display and FBDev

On 2005-05-03 18:23:05 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Well, my question is what did you want ? :) I don't understand what you > wanted it to do with both clone and different resolutions ... If you > expected the flat panel to suddently get a better resolution, then no, > there is no black m

Re: External Display on Powerbook5,6 (was: external Display and FBDev)

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:00:21AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > Now I do have a crash in the server when trying to run magicpoint. > Thus I am trying to build 6.8.2 with your patches and see if this is better. 6.8.2 with Ben's patches can also do the clone mode like X.org CVS HEAD. Unfortunatel

External Display on Powerbook5,6 (was: external Display and FBDev)

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:38:46PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:16 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 > > M10]" > > # Driver "ati" > > Driver

Re: external Display and FBDev

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 10:18 +0200, Francesco Ciocchetti wrote: > > >>Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> >> >> Well, if you want clone, it can't be anything different :) What do you expect ? If you want dual head, you use Xinerama (or MergedFB, but Mer

Re: external Display and FBDev

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 10:18 +0200, Francesco Ciocchetti wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > >> > >>Well, if you want clone, it can't be anything different :) What do you > >>expect ? If you want dual head, you use Xinerama (or MergedFB, but > >>MergedFB will want edges with the same resolut

Re: external Display and FBDev

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> >>Well, if you want clone, it can't be anything different :) What do you >>expect ? If you want dual head, you use Xinerama (or MergedFB, but >>MergedFB will want edges with the same resolution as well). >> >> >> Ok, i knew i was wanting too much :) Btw, thank

Re: external Display and FBDev

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 09:34 +0200, Francesco Ciocchetti wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > >>... > >> > >> > > > >The config file options for clone changed a bit. You need to specify > >CRT2Position "Clone" and MergedFB "true" in your device section. Have a > >look at the radeon.man ma

Re: external Display and FBDev

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >>... >> >> > >The config file options for clone changed a bit. You need to specify >CRT2Position "Clone" and MergedFB "true" in your device section. Have a >look at the radeon.man man page in the source of the ATI driver in the >X.org source tree (in xc/programs/

Re: external Display and FBDev (some success!)

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:16 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > Section "Device" > Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 > M10]" > # Driver "ati" > Driver "radeon" > BusID "PCI:0:16:0" > # Option "U

Re: external Display and FBDev (some success!)

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:16:05AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:49:04AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 10:45 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > > > I would be glad if I'd get this far with my Powerbook5,6 15" > > > ATI Technologies Inc

Re: external Display and FBDev (some success!)

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:49:04AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 10:45 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > I would be glad if I'd get this far with my Powerbook5,6 15" > > ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] > It works with X.org provided you use an

Re: external Display and FBDev

hi, just for the record [don't know if it's relevant since you're mostly talking newer machines here]. on ibook g3 900mhz [think that's radeon 7500] and xorg packages from ubuntu hoary it's working pretty much out of the box here, didn't have to apply any patches or whatsoever. there is actuall

Re: external Display and FBDev

> I'm not a debian user, i use gentoo instead and i compiled and installed > Xorg 6.8.99.3 ... that means CVS HEAD. > I tried some configs for Xorg but i had no luck at seeing anything on my > external monitor except when i tried with Xinerama , but i would like > much more the CloneMode. The con

Re: external Display and FBDev

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >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 :) > > > Yep , i tried it. I tried to set false to UseFBDev and enabling Clone mode ... but had no

Re: external Display and FBDev

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 10:45 +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:20:32AM +0200, Carsten Friede wrote: > > 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! I

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

Re: external Display and FBDev

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,

Re: external Display and FBDev

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:20:32AM +0200, Carsten Friede wrote: > 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! > But as it is working for my CRT, the display of my iBoo

Re: external Display and FBDev

Ciao Benjamin Herrenschmidt, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > 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). I know thi

Re: external Display and FBDev

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) > But as it i

external Display and FBDev

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! 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