[Libdlo] CRTC emulation

[Frank Blendinger]

Hi Roberto.

On Thu 2009-10-15 09:33, Roberto De Ioris <roberto at unbit.it> proclaimed:
> > On Wed 2009-10-14 17:29, Roberto De Ioris <roberto at unbit.it> proclaimed:
> > > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 10:23 -0500, Kal McFate wrote:
> > > > Is most of the development here going towards multiseat? I have great
> > > > interested in extended desktop and virtual crtc support. I read
> > > > previously that there was a patch for the intel drivers available to
> > > > add DL adapters as aditional crtc's. Is this patch information
> > > > available somewhere?
> > > 
> > > Hi Kal, i have started working on an intel patch on June but i have stop
> > > the work after i have faced with the 2048*2048 limit of this driver.
> > > 
> > > My work is currently targeted on radeon (a little bit harder of intel
> > > driver but without those annoying limits).
> > > 
> > > I think that the xorg/intel team should reintroduce some sort of
> > > multicard managing (as the old xinerama) as a fast-and-simple way to use
> > > displaylink devices without messing the xserver (even if that could be a
> > > good way to go in the near future)
> > 
> > So there is currently no way to have a displaylink screen integrated in
> > any way with an X server using the intel driver, right?
> > 
> 
> Yes, you can use it as a second screen (the so-called zaphod-mode)
> adding a second "Device" section to your xorg.conf.
> 
> Search in the list (and in the readme in the driver distribution) and
> you will find a lot of example configurations

I tried to do that, see my mail on this list from 2009-10-08. I still
have not managed to get it working, so I was wondering if it really was
possible at all.


Btw, you sent your reply to me personally; I think we should keep it on
the list, hope that's ok with you.


Greetings,
Frank

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