On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Maarten Maathuis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Yan Seiner <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm trying to get started with nouveau. I have it compiled, I have it >> installed, but I'm having trouble working out the xorg.conf file. >> >> My system has 3 video cards; one is a single DVI out, two are dual DVI >> out. From the messages in the xorg log files, nouveau expects config for >> DVI-I-0 and DVI-I-1, and so on. Going from the nvidia blob is not as >> easy as changing nvidia to nouveau; all of the options are different and >> the structure of the file is different. >> >> Can someone who has a working nouveau xorg.conf with multiple cards and >> dual DVI cards please put this on on the wiki? The wiki is really short >> of info for casual user/developers like me. My time and knowledge are >> limited so any help I get is greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> >> --Yan >> _______________________________________________ >> Nouveau mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau >> > > All randr-1.2+ drivers are incapable of doing the xinerama style > multihead, until someone writes the needed xorg code.
Thats not true, radeon runs fine in Xinerama with other radeons, X when pciaccess happened lost the ability to int10 post secondary cards, however if you have a driver that can post without int10 it should be okay. you can disable randr have have working Xinerama Intel are just being lazy. I'm not sure nouveau cares enough to bother implementing zaphod, but single head might be possible. Dave. > > If you want a protocol screen per card, then that should be possible, > minus possible nouveau bugs. Few people actually have a multi card > setup, so a standard config isn't really available. > > You can try using this howto > "http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12"; and expand it to > two (protocol) screens in your xorg.conf > > Maarten. > _______________________________________________ > Nouveau mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau > _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
