[Savage40] Dual Head on T23?

[Alex Deucher]

--- Philip Mucci <mucci at cs.utk.edu> wrote:

> HI Albert, Alex, Tim and the gang,
> 
> So I've been happily using dual head now for 2 weeks. Everything's
> stable. Thanks for this, it has improved my productivity greatly.
> 
> Now for remaining issues, I hope this helps. Feel free to use me to
> test
> suggestions...I'll do what I can. BTW, I've confirmed both of these
> with
> Albert (another T23 dual head user).
> 
> 1) glxgears is black on Screen 1 (with or without no ScreentoScreen
> XAA)
> 

Not sure about that one.  I'll take a look at that next time I mess
with the savage driver.


> 2) exiting dual head leaves both monitors powered off. Fn-F7 required
> to
> power on the main LCD again.


probably an issue with saving and restoring the bios state.  Should be
a pretty easy fix.  I'll look into it.

> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Phil
> 
> P.S. Anyone know if there's a wrapper out there that uses X
> --probeonly
> or something to see if there's actually another 'head' attached and
> then
> start the server with the appropriate 'layout'? When I took my laptop
> home this weekend, I had windows in never-never land...and the damn
> gnome-window applet's are sooo broken.

vbetool may be useful.  Once I finally finish mergedfb support (I know,
I've been saying it for ages...), you should be able to resize your
desktop between single and dual head using xrandr.  You'll also get
dualhead with DRI.

Alex



		
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