> > > There are other drivers that support multihead already (matroxfb, any > > > other?) and have their own driver-specific inteface. > > > > Each crtc is treated as a seperate fbdev device. I don't recall any > > special ioctls. Maybe for mirroring which was never standardized. > > matroxfb does have a bunch of custom ioctls to change the crtc<->output > mapping.
Yes the mapping issue were never address. > I don't think the CRTC=fb_info makes much sense if the main use > case is fbcon. Actually that is what I had in mind when I reworked the fbdev api. Plus with the linux console project I got multiple VTs working at the same time. > fbcon will use a single fb device and so you can't see > the console on multiple heads anyway which makes the whole thing > somewhat pointless. And if you're trying to do something more complex > you will be a lot better off bypassing fbdev altogether. Not true. You can map different displays to different vcs. Give con2fb a try some time :-) Now there is the issue of more than one keyboard being mapped at a time. BTW I did getting multipe VT working at the same time working in the past. It requires some cleanup on the console layer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
