[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 1.9.91 (2.0 RC1)

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:43:29 Keith Packard wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:22 +0100, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> > > You won't be able to get dualhead with your setup with randr 1.2 right
> > > now as the max surface width of your chip is 2048 pixels.
> >
> > This is a limitiation in randr's support of my chip?
>
> No, it's a limit of the chip -- it can't address more than 2048 pixels
> with the 3D accelerator. Working around this is possible, but painful
> with multiple monitors. With a single monitor, it's not possible at all.
>
> The recent i965 chips can address up to 8192 pixels.

I've never explored whether 3D acceleration works in any useful way, so I 
guess that the i810 driver works for me (at least with some monitors) by not 
using this support (or not depending on it)? It sounds unlikely that it works 
by sheer luck :)

In any case, not being able to support two monitors at least as well as it 
does with the i810 driver (whether it is with 3D acceleration or not) will be 
a clear regression. Not showing anything on the LFP too, btw ...

Regards,
Lars Ivar Igesund