Problem with vesa driver

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de
Fri Jul 11 03:20:29 PDT 2008


Ashish Jain wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As we know VESA is a generic video driver therefore the VESA driver works on virtually any modern graphics adapter that's why I am trying multi-monitor with VESA driver and according to my investigation it is running well with single monitor. 
> 
> Can we use the Intel driver as a generic driver? 
> Or
> Do you know any generic driver which support multi-monitor?

The VESA driver's main purpose is to support chips that lack a native 
driver or for chips that don't have stable/usable native drivers.  If 
you have an Intel chip, why do you want to use the VESA driver in the 
first place?




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