On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 15:09 -0500, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 10:19 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > 
> > I think long term though, a better solution would be to get rid of
> > mergedfb and handle each head separately but just change the 2d/3d
> > engines offsets depending on which head you are rendering to.  then
> > you wouldn't have to worry about the limits so much (although some of
> > these new super hi-res LCDs would still need some work).
> 
> Yep, and as a bonus you'll have to solve basically all of the issues of
> multi-card Xinerama. If there's a benefit to that (other than making the
> exotic multi-card Xinerama possible or at least easier), I'm afraid I
> don't see it. Fixing the remaining MergedFB issues seems much easier and
> more useful to me.

Hrm... I tend to disagree :) MergedFB is a hack imho. It's much saner in
the long run to fix the issues of multi-card Xinerama.

Ben.




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