Re: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook

2003-06-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 00:10, Alex Deucher wrote: there are alot of issues with dualhead and LCDs on PPC. I believe the fix is to use fbdev, but I'm not sure anyone has gotten dualhead to work yet. check the archives from last month. I had it working on the M6 a while ago, I haven't yet tried

Re: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook

2003-06-13 Thread Andreakis, Dean (MED)
Ben, Thanks for the information. I used fbset -x and updated XF86Config-4 accordingly. All of the test results from my original post were without using the kernel fbdev driver. I just now went ahead and added Option UseFBDev to the lcd-related device section in XF86Config-4 and set BusID to

Re: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook

2003-06-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 17:08, Andreakis, Dean (MED) wrote: Given this result I tried comparing the sections of code in the kernel fbdev driver and the XF86 radeon driver that sets up the PLL and there was just a few minor diff's in the default min/max values. I went ahead and changed these to

Re: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook

2003-06-13 Thread Andreakis, Dean (MED)
Alex, I went ahead and commented out the dri section and the Load dri, Load GLcore and Load glx lines in the Module section of XF86Config-4 to try and prevent the DRI drivers from loading but I still see the same messages in the XF86 log file. Maybe I need to do something else to stop DRI from

Re: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook

2003-06-13 Thread Alex Deucher
It's not the DRI per se... it's the radeon memory manager. it attempts to statically allocate offscreen memory for use by the DRI, pixmaps, etc. It has no effect on modes, so you can safely ignore it. Alex --- Andreakis, Dean (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex, I went ahead and commented

Re: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook

2003-06-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 22:01, Andreakis, Dean (MED) wrote: I went ahead and commented out the dri section and the Load dri, Load GLcore and Load glx lines in the Module section of XF86Config-4 to try and prevent the DRI drivers from loading but I still see the same messages in the XF86 log

Re: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook

2003-06-12 Thread Alex Deucher
there are alot of issues with dualhead and LCDs on PPC. I believe the fix is to use fbdev, but I'm not sure anyone has gotten dualhead to work yet. check the archives from last month. Alex --- Andreakis, Dean (MED) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to enable dual independent heads on my

RE: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook

2003-06-12 Thread Alexander Stohr
I dont really know driver or chipset in detail, but its the way that it needs programming so that the timing for the LCD does match. black or striped or whatever effects do indcate wront timing for the flat pane display. If the device is capable of dual head in other OS condtions then it can do