Dual Head using Intel driver

[Alan Hourihane]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:32 +0530, Rudradev AC wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> Thank you for your support so far.
> 
> Please correct my driver section understanding present in xorg.conf
> mentioned below. We are using xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.2.
> 
> 1)	The intel driver will be used instead of i810 if we change the
> Driver field in Device section as intel as listed below.
> 
> Section "Device"
> 
> 	Driver      "i810"
> 
> EndSection
> 
> Will be changed as below
> 
> Section "Device"
> 
> 	Driver      "intel"
> 
> EndSection
> 
> 2) Does the intel driver support extended desktop (dual head) and
> independent desktop mode. If so, please let me know in which sections of
> xorg.conf I have to change.
> 
> With your help we achieved independent desktop, clone and extended
> desktop using i810 driver.
> But using Intel driver I am unable to achieve independent desktop and
> extended desktop mode.

As mentioned previously, independent desktop does not work with the
"intel" driver.  But for extended desktop you can use the xrandr tool.

Alan.