[Dri-devel] Re: xfree86, DRI, and multiple heads: thoughts and ideas

2003-08-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:31, Alex Deucher wrote: On a related note, I've been thinking about alternative ways to implement mergedfb on radeon hardware. what if instead of creating a single framebuffer with two viewports, we stuck with the old style pScrn based multi-head code, but made each

[Dri-devel] Re: xfree86, DRI, and multiple heads: thoughts and ideas

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Michel D�nzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:31, Alex Deucher wrote: On a related note, I've been thinking about alternative ways to implement mergedfb on radeon hardware. what if instead of creating a single framebuffer with two viewports, we stuck with the old

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: xfree86, DRI, and multiple heads: thoughts and ideas

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Ian Romanick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Deucher wrote: --- Michel D�nzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference is that the 2D engine is only used by the X server, whereas the 3D engine is used by every 3D client, and the 3D driver still assumes that the locations of the front,

[Dri-devel] Re: xfree86, DRI, and multiple heads: thoughts and ideas

2003-08-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 07:31:08AM -0700, Alex Deucher wrote: Dualhead... Right now there is dualhead support for the following cards in xfree86: radeon matrox sis via chips 3dlabs (Sven mentioned that he had this quasi-working on the newer cards, although I don't know the state of his