Re: Looking for some answers.

2004-12-20 Thread Mike Mestnik
This defenatly belongs on another Xrelated list. --- Austin Yuan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 04:54:20AM +0800, Alex Deucher wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:35:42 +, Ian Molton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Is MergedFB going to replace xinerama in the long run?

Re: Looking for some answers.

2004-12-20 Thread Alex Deucher
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:53:26 -0400, Austin Yuan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 04:54:20AM +0800, Alex Deucher wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:35:42 +, Ian Molton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Is MergedFB going to replace xinerama in the long run? maybe. they

Re: Looking for some answers.

2004-12-19 Thread Mike Mestnik
--- Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:56:42 +, Ian Molton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Mestnik wrote: if not, will xinerama be able to use 3D / Xv properly on radeon (9000) in the near future? I don't think there are any plans to support 3D for

Re: Looking for some answers.

2004-12-19 Thread Austin Yuan
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 04:54:20AM +0800, Alex Deucher wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:35:42 +, Ian Molton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Is MergedFB going to replace xinerama in the long run? maybe. they will probably co-exist for the forseeable future. regular multi-head allows

Re: Looking for some answers.

2004-12-19 Thread Ryan Underwood
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:31:13PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote: why doesnt radeon xinerama use mergedFB techniques to acieve its ends ? The only big hurdel is wather or not the heads share enuff videomemory for the entire FB. That, and not necessarily all cards support the framebuffer

Re: Looking for some answers.

2004-12-19 Thread Ryan Underwood
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:35:42AM +, Ian Molton wrote: Hi. Is MergedFB going to replace xinerama in the long run? For multi-head chips, probably. Even in that case, Xinerama is still useful as a more generic multi-head solution that works regardless of the underlying hardware. --

Re: Looking for some answers.

2004-12-18 Thread Ian Molton
Mike Mestnik wrote: if not, will xinerama be able to use 3D / Xv properly on radeon (9000) in the near future? I don't think there are any plans to support 3D for xinerama. Is there a technical problem or is it just lack of interest? --- SF

Re: Looking for some answers.

2004-12-18 Thread Alex Deucher
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:56:42 +, Ian Molton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Mestnik wrote: if not, will xinerama be able to use 3D / Xv properly on radeon (9000) in the near future? I don't think there are any plans to support 3D for xinerama. Is there a technical problem or is it

Looking for some answers.

2004-12-17 Thread Ian Molton
Hi. Is MergedFB going to replace xinerama in the long run? if not, will xinerama be able to use 3D / Xv properly on radeon (9000) in the near future? why doesnt radeon xinerama use mergedFB techniques to acieve its ends ? --- SF email is

Re: Looking for some answers.

2004-12-17 Thread Alex Deucher
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:35:42 +, Ian Molton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Is MergedFB going to replace xinerama in the long run? maybe. they will probably co-exist for the forseeable future. regular multi-head allows you do have two independant X servers while mergedfb always creates

Re: Looking for some answers.

2004-12-17 Thread Mike Mestnik
--- Ian Molton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Is MergedFB going to replace xinerama in the long run? MergedFB only workes on hardware that supports it, where both heads can share the same continious framebuffer. This can only be done if the DACs(heads) share the same video memory. if not,