> >
> > nope. I'm not happy with this myself, but you can either have
> > DRI+mergedfb dual head or just dual head... I'm thinking about what
> > might be needed to hack it, the big problem is the memory
> > allocator....
>> OK - given that MergedFB is, as you said, a complete PITA if you don't
> have identical screens (and if you do have identical screens, it can
> also be a bit of a PITA when applications launch with windows
> straddling screens) and given that it sounds like a hard problem, is it
> specifically related to using dualhead radeon. I'm not THAT pushed
> about 3D TBH but given that I have a shiny new graphics card, it'd be
> nice to use it. I guess if I abandon dualhead radeon, and use the
> radeon single head and use a random PCI card for my second head, I'll
> be able to have DRI on the radeon?
That's a question I'm actually not sure about, I used to run an Nvidia and
a SIS and 3d worked on my NVidia, but I've no idea what happens with DRI,
a quick look at the code makes me think it should work fine, I might be
testing this out myself at work soon, (or I might buy a PCI radeon as that
SIS card I have is a really slow piece of crap...)
Dave.
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