Accelerated X probably got the databooks for the chips under NDA from
intel.  Several xfree86 developers probably have the databooks as well,
they are just not publically available.

many laptops default to one crtc driving both outputs, but this is not
necessarily always the case, as evidenced by your laptop.  you may want
to look in the bios there may be a way to set the default crtc
configuration.  I'd expect you may see fewer and fewer laptops with
this behavior since it is safer to use one crtc per head.  that way you
won't accidently drive an external monitor with a signal that may
damage it.  

I suspect that they only way to drive "clone" mode on your laptop is to
use both crtcs.  once you have that working adding dualhead support is
trival since all you have to do is point the crtcs at different parts
of the framebuffer.

Alex

--- Mario Kadastik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> any idea how the Accelerated-X knows the registers as I believe they 
> shouldn't have received any docus from Intel either. I'm just curious
> as 
> I saw their thing work with dual head.
> 
> But ok, if we leave the dual head aside and think on the clone view.
> I 
> have seen that 90% of laptops do the clone view already in hardware,
> but 
> for some reason the Fujitsu-Siemens I have doesn't and I really need
> it. 
> Any idea if both of the pipes could be activated and the same stuff 
> copied? Or can I somehow force X to assume there is a CRT present
> (what 
> it actually sees because X log contains my monitor model and serial 
> number :)
> 
> Mario
> 
> Alex Deucher wrote:
> 
> >Unfortunately these databooks lack register level information on the
> >graphics part of the chipset.  Without that adding dualhead support
> is
> >not really possible.  As far as I know intel has not released
> register
> >level documentation for anything newer than the i810/15 graphics
> chips.
> > 
> >  
> >


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