xf86-video-dummy with randr support - is anyone else interested? Alternatives?

2011-07-10 Thread Leho Kraav
Hi all My goal is to use a DisplayLink USB display with Xorg on a laptop in a sane fashion, which pretty much seems to mean RandR support one way or the other. Since USB display is a very comes-and-goes device, I'm figuring I better use a permanent virtual secondary screen using

xf86-video-dummy with randr support - is anyone else interested? Alternatives?

2011-07-10 Thread Leho Kraav
Hi all My goal is to use a DisplayLink USB display with Xorg on a laptop in a sane fashion, which pretty much seems to mean RandR support one way or the other. Since USB display is a very comes-and-goes device, I'm figuring I better use a permanent virtual secondary screen using

Re: xf86-video-dummy with randr support - is anyone else interested? Alternatives?

2011-07-10 Thread Alan Cox
Alternatives? I cannot find any other driver that would act as a virtual screen like xf86-video-dummy, but would provide a RandR-compliant framebuffer for me. I don't think Xephyr, Xdmx, Xvnc, x2x and whatnot others can help me here, Awesome needs to see something as a regular RandR