multi head madness

[Alex Deucher]

On 10/29/07, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
> I have noticed that sometimes my secondary heads have a bit of text identifying
> the video card they are connected to, like "ATI Rage128 PRO GL PCI - P/N
> 113-74403-101" and "Monster Fusion Ver 1.20b4002 Diamond Multimedia Sytstems,
> Inc; Video Memory 16MB"  This comes in handy, but I don't have a good way of
> invoking it.  I generally see it as X is starting up, and once the Screens get
> used the message is gone.
>
> What would it take to have a CLI tool that would display those strings and leave
> them up?
>
> It might also be hand to be able to pass a string to be displayed too, like
> "Screen 2"
>

This is an artifact of the posting process.  It's displayed as part of
the card's init sequence.  Some cards do it some don't.  there's not a
way that I'm aware of to display it at will.

Alex