Multimonitor Support in VESA Driver

[Adam Jackson]

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 10:16 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 1:33 AM, DEEPAK BHATIA <toreachdeepak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are currently evaluating the VESA Driver for Multimonitor support
> > on Intel 915GM/GMS, 910GML Express Chipset.
> >
> > Kindly let us know if we can have dual head capababilities using VESA
> > Driver. But we are using X11R7.1 platform and not X11R7.3.
> 
> In theory you can setup dualhead with vbe, but I don't know how many
> vendors actually implement it and the current xorg vesa driver doesn't
> support it AFAIK.

There's a VBE-based hack for dualhead in the nv driver that doesn't work
especially well.  I can't find anything in the VBE docs about setting up
different modes on multiple outputs.

So no, no VBE multihead for you.

- ajax