On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 21:38 +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote: > Bill Crawford wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 March 2009 15:14:20 Matthias Hopf wrote: > > ... > >> That is probably not in SoC's way (too little invention), and probably > >> still difficult (if at all possible) to achieve. Or trivial. Probably > >> nobody knows. > > > > Well, currently it mostly looks like bugs in the conversion to > > libpciaccess, and > > now some issue with the int10 mechanism. Everything goes black, usually, > > but I > > did manage to get the second screen to light up with severely corrupted > > display > > by disabling DRI in xorg.conf ... > > > > It's more than bugs in libpciaccess conversion. A lot of useful code was > deleted and cannot simply be brought back because things changed a lot > since the code was removed. > > I agree with Matthias that this needs a new design, but also that this > is really important. Many users miss the multi-card multihead support.
Agreed, I'm getting dinged on it with fair regularity on FreeBSD now. Between other things, I've been thinking a little bit about how to handle the arbitration, but if we could deal with it reasonably in X / libpciaccess, that makes it easier IMHO. robert. -- Robert Noland <[email protected]> 2 Hip Networks
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