Marc Wilson declaimed:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 08:45:35AM +0000, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> > Kyle Donaldson declaimed:
> > > On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > > First off, this really was the wrong place to ask about setting up
> > > dual-head X, because it really has nothing to do with Blackbox.
>
> Don't credit ME with this... I had no problem with you asking the question
> here. :)
>
Thanks! Consider the finger unpointed.
> > Well I guess I knew that but the amazing Xinerama flame war made me
> > think I could sneak it in. Really I'm just looking for a trail of
> > breadcrumbs leading to the right forum/documentation. Sorry for the OT
> > post, I'll desist.
>
> Have you gotten what you need yet?
>
A nice fellow cross-posted to debian-user with a sample XF86Config
containing several lines in addition to the commented hints in mine.
Best effort so far: My main monitor runs X, the cursor goes off the
screen to the left where I said the other monitor was, but the secondary
monitor shows blank/garbage. The good news is that it changes when I
change its config in XF86Config (named XF86Config-4 on debian). See the
end of this post for key sections of my config file, feedback welcome.
(The 2nd monitor apparently hates console mode, looks horrible even with
the framebuffer disabled.)
> > I installed the framebuffer because a) it was there, b) because it's
> > really nice when X isn't running and c) for the penguin (of course).
>
> Yes, but how does X cooperate with it when it IS running?
Very nicely. I'm using the "mga" driver that X recommends for my card.
I can leave X running, switch to a non-X terminal running the frame-
buffer and switch back to X without hassle. No different than running
without the framebuffer except for the high resolution text with a
smooth appearance.
Here's a snip from
/kernel-source-2.4.17/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt:
---snip---
X11
===
XF68_FBDev should work just fine, but it is non-accelerated. On
non-intel architectures there are some glitches for 24bpp videomodes. 8,
16 and 32bpp works fine.
Running another (accelerated) X-Server like XF86_SVGA works too. But (at
least) XFree servers have big troubles in multihead configurations (even
on first head, not even talking about second).
---end snip---
I infer that one would specify "XF68_FBDev" (assuming the '68' isn't a
typo) instead of "mga" or "svga" in their XF86Config, but I haven't
tried it. It's not clear to me whether the author is refering to Xfree
3.3.6 or 4.x.
#XF86Config-4
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor_0"
VendorName "Art Media"
ModelName "A-1701T"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-120
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor_1"
VendorName "MicroScan"
ModelName "4 GP"
HorizSync 30-64
VertRefresh 50-100
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Driver "vga"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Matrox_0"
Driver "mga"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Matrox_1"
Driver "mga"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen_0"
Device "Matrox_0"
Monitor "Monitor_0"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "Matrox_1"
Monitor "Monitor_1"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Dual Layout"
Screen "Screen_0"
Screen "Screen_1" LeftOf "Screen_0"
InputDevice "Mouse_0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard_0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
TIA,
Paul
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