On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Dave Airlie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >
I did say randr-1.2 drivers, which implies using randr-1.2, zaphod is something else altogether, which nouveau doesn't support. Maarten. _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
