Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook

2003-06-12 Thread Andreakis, Dean (MED)
I am trying to enable dual independent heads on my iBook that has Debian(sid) installed and XFree86 4.3.0. The iBook has an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 (M7) installed. In order to alleviate configuration issues I set the same mode up successfully on my Dell laptop with RH9 installed that also has th

Re: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook

2003-06-13 Thread Andreakis, Dean (MED)
Ben, Thanks for the information. I used fbset -x and updated XF86Config-4 accordingly. All of the test results from my original post were without using the kernel fbdev driver. I just now went ahead and added Option "UseFBDev" to the lcd-related device section in XF86Config-4 and set BusID to 0:1

Re: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook

2003-06-13 Thread Andreakis, Dean (MED)
03-06-13 at 10:37, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 17:08, Andreakis, Dean (MED) wrote: > > > Given this result I tried comparing the sections of code in the kernel > > fbdev driver and the XF86 radeon driver that sets up the PLL and there > > was just

Re: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook

2003-06-13 Thread Andreakis, Dean (MED)
I need to do something else to stop DRI from trying to load... thx, -dean andreakis On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:47, Alex Deucher wrote: > this is from the DRI (front, back, and depth buffers) not the 2D driver > I think. > > Alex > > --- "Andreakis, Dean (MED)"

benh 2.4.21 kernel and radeonfb initialization

2003-08-12 Thread Andreakis, Dean (MED)
I have an iBook w/ Debian (sid), benh 2.4.21 kernel, an external CRT connected, XFree86 v4.3.0, and an ATI radeon mobility 7500 video chip. When I boot the system the very first thing I see is some messages concerning opening of the display etc. (its in a different font then the normal boot mes