On 06/02/2009, at 0:38, Maarten Maathuis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 Wierd because radeon in zaphod supports randr 1.2 protocol on both protocol screens it only exposes a single crtc and output but all the modeset bits are fine. It's only when you introduce xinerama that randr needs to turn off and that has 0 to do with randr 1.2 it's always been true. Dave. > > > Maarten. _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
