2009/4/12 Jerome Glisse <gli...@freedesktop.org>: > On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 16:22 +0900, Kan-I Jyo wrote: >> 2009/4/10 Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com>: >> > On 4/10/09, Kan-I Jyo <cecilhs...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear list, >> >> >> >> I am currently using xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1.3.0 along with >> >> xrandr 1.2 on one of my laptop. >> >> >> >> It is to my curiosity that is there any support on RandR in vesa >> >> driver since it seems to fail detecting an external monitor. >> >> >> >> I have taken a look on the git tree of vesa driver and it seems >> >> that support for RandR 1.2 is on the TODO list. >> >> >> >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-vesa/tree/src/vesa.c >> >> >> >> <vesa.c> >> >> ... snip ... >> >> /* >> >> * TODO: >> >> * - PanelID might give us useful size hints. >> >> * - Port to RANDR 1.2 setup to make mode selection slightly better >> >> * - Port to RANDR 1.2 to drop the old-school DGA junk >> >> * - VBE/SCI for secondary DDC method? >> >> */ >> >> ... snip ... >> >> >> >> >> >> Is there any means to use the external monitor with vesa driver? >> > >> > If you boot with your laptop lid closed, you can probably get the >> > external display to work with vesa. Multi-head is not really possible >> > with vesa. If you want multi-head or the ability to switch outputs, >> > use a native driver for your hardware. >> > >> > Alex >> > >> >> Dear Alex, >> >> Thank you for your prompt reply. >> >> It is to my surprise that the vesa driver does not support multi-head >> display currently ( I assumed that it does). Is this going to be >> implemented or using a native driver is the only means? >> > > VESA standard is more than 10 years old, back in the day dual monitor > only existed on expensive workstation and they definitly weren't using > vesa to drive things. So no it won't ever happen with vesa and you > will need native driver, anyway native driver (at least for the most > common gpu manufacturer) are way faster than vesa. > > Cheers, > Jerome Glisse > > Dear Jerome,
Thank you and Alex for your replies make things clear to me. I will try using a native display driver instead. -- Sincerely, Jyo _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg