On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Alex Deucher wrote: >Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 22:19:52 -0400 >From: Alex Deucher <agd5f@yahoo.com> >To: xfree86-list@redhat.com, xpert@xfree86.org, > dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; > boundary="------------050204080200090300030508" >List-Id: Red Hat XFree86 list <xfree86-list.redhat.com> >Subject: [Patches] attempted dualhead support for r128 > >THESE PATCHES COULD FRY YOUR CARD >THESE PATCHES COULD FRY YOUR CARD >THESE PATCHES COULD FRY YOUR CARD >I do not have a r128. I don't even know if these will compile. Please >do NOT try them on your card until someone with r128 documentation looks >them over. > >The attached patches provide an attempt at support for dualhead on the >r128. They are based on the radeon driver. I did not however have >access to any documentation, so much of what was done was based on >guesses and cross references from the radeon driver. THESE ARE NOT >FUNCTIONAL YET. Dualhead does not appear to work quite the same on the >r128 as it does on the radeon. These patches lay out the basic frame >work. someone with r128 docs will probably have to fix the register >poking since I merely guessed for most of that. Also I'm not sure which >r128 models support dualhead, so only I enabled it on the mobility >series since those are the only ones I've seen with dual-head >capabilities. These files are diffed against the Xfree 4.2.0 r128 source. Once this patch is complete, and tested, it should be submitted to fixes@xfree86.org for inclusion in an upcoming release. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
