gatos & xorg

Vladimir Dergachev volodya at mindspring.com
Mon Jan 3 20:15:10 PST 2005



On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Monday 03 January 2005 19:44, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>>>> almost all ati chips.  proper tv-out support would require
>>>> programming the various tv-regs directly.
>>>>
>>>> Alex
>>>
>>> In other words, I shouldn't hold my breath. The current 6.8.1
>>> apparently takes a look for a 2nd screen, but doesn't find an
>>> attached monitor so it politely goes away during the startx.
>>
>> Hi Gene, have you tried X.org CVS HEAD ?
>>
>
> Nah.  I figure when 6.8.2's rc cycle starts, I might try that.
> Makeing an X install from scratch seems to take quite a while, or did
> when I built 6.8.1 anyway.

I am surprised to hear that - as your CPU is faster than mine.
The compilation was not instantenous, but it finished far earlier than I 
expected.

                         best

                           Vladimir Dergachev




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