Intel driver and multiple grapphics cards

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 08:35:47 PDT 2008


On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel+xorg at tikei.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:47:27 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Use a newer server with the bug fix in it?
>
> Please define "newer". Currently, I use 1.4.2. All I found are several
> reports about that crash, and bug reports against the Intel driver.
> There it was stated that Xinerama won't be supported anymore by the
> Intel driver, only RandR.
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10299
>
> However, RandR is somethat limited to ATI and Intel these days, and I
> need it for trident.
>
> And even if the crash should be fixed meanwhile, does that also mean
> that Xinerama works again with the Intel driver? That would be so nice
> that I can't really believe it. :-)
>

Damn I fixed this before, maybe it was in the Intel driver. I don't
expect Intel to support
zaphod mode again, however it shouldn't crash the server.

I'm not near my multi-headed machine to play now.

Dave.
> Regards,
> Tino
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