[Savage40] Have anyone mad T23 with 1400x1050 screen to have both LCD/CRT on?

[Alex Deucher]

--- Min Xu <minxu at sci.ccny.cuny.edu> wrote:

> Can that be achieved by setting parameters in the configuration file 
> (xorg.conf)? I will appreciate very much if you can give me more
> detailed 
> instructions.
> 

no it would require hacking the code to set up both crtcs as clones.

> Or even better, how far away is your mergedfd code?

it works now, it just has some issues and I haven't yet posted a patch
against xorg cvs.  It shouldn't take too long to finish it up, but
someone is borrowing my savage laptop at the moment. you can grab my
mergedfb tarball and drop it into an X tree and it'll probably build,
but I haven't checked in a while.

Alex

> 
> Min
> 
> On Monday 24 January 2005 16:31, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > --- Min Xu <minxu at sci.ccny.cuny.edu> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I like my T23 very much. The only problem I faced is that I can
> not
> > > make the
> > > machine to have both LCD and CRT on. I understood that Tim
> mentioned
> > > that
> > > savage driver was unable to do this for T23 with a 1400x1050
> screen.
> > >
> > > Have anyone here in this mailing list achieved to solve this
> problem?
> > > And does
> > > the new release from X.org (R6.8.1) solve this problem?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Please cc to my email address as I did not subscribe to this
> mailing
> > > address.
> > >
> > > Min Xu
> >
> > you should be able to hack the current Xorg driver to do this. 
> what
> > you'd need to do is set up crtc2 in the crtc1 path and have it just
> > mirror all the crtc1 setings.  it shouldn't be too hard.  This'll
> 'just
> > work' if I ever get around to finishing my savage mergedfb patch.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> >
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