Re: [Fwd: Re: Dual head on G4 Powerbook 400MHz]

2004-02-26 Thread David Stanaway
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 at 09:17:49 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: In the normal case, we really want all displays opened. This make sure everything gets properly initialized by the firmware. The fact that m3mirror hack doesn't work in this case is a side effect ;) It could probably be

Re: Dual head on G4 Powerbook 400MHz

2004-02-25 Thread David Stanaway
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 13:18, Julien BLACHE wrote: There was a patch for the 2.4 kernel, but it doesn't work on 2.6. On 2.4, you could also replace the prom_init.c file with the one from 2.4.20 and that would allow you to use m3mirror to enable the crt output. I have had a look at the

Re: Dual head on G4 Powerbook 400MHz

2004-02-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 06:18, Julien BLACHE wrote: Maybe it's possible to reuse prom_init.c from 2.4.20 with a 2.6 kernel, I haven't tried (yet). No but you can obtain the same result by commenting out one line :) Just force check_display() to only open the first fisplay. The proper solution

Re: Dual head on G4 Powerbook 400MHz

2004-02-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
I am trying to get dual head, or even just CRT only use from the Rage 128 M3 on my TiBook without much luck. The good news is, the problem is known; the bad news is, nobody is working on it. [...] The proper solution would be to add dualhead support to aty128fb.c. (or pester BenH until he

[Fwd: Re: Dual head on G4 Powerbook 400MHz]

2004-02-25 Thread David Stanaway
I got this from BenH, looks like he ment to CC the list but typoed :P. -- David Stanaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---BeginMessage--- I could make it just open the first display if there were 2 and they were both M3s, but is there are more general test to see if this is necessary? In the normal

Dual head on G4 Powerbook 400MHz

2004-02-24 Thread David Stanaway
I am trying to get dual head, or even just CRT only use from the Rage 128 M3 on my TiBook without much luck. I just got a Studio 21 display and I am not having any luck using it in linux yet. I am using sid with X 4.3.0-2 and kernel 2.6.3 (I also build the drm trunk from the source package in