[ltp] Re: ATI Rage mobility dual-head support

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:57:56 -0400


On 8/10/05, Rolf Leggewie <no2spam@nospam.arcornews.de> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
>=20
> > yeah...I don't think it would be really workable.  The problem is it
> > quite easy to hang the chip or laptop in the process and then it would
> > need to be rebooted, etc.  I could try and code up some stuff to test
> > with and have you test and report back, but that tends to be painful
> > on both sides since you have to wait for feedback both ways.
>=20
> Would be fine with me.  I'll test anything you send my way.  It'd be
> really awesome to get this machine capable of dual-head support.
>=20
> > I have the databooks from ati, but they are under and NDA so I can't sh=
are them.
>=20
> OK.
>=20

Last week I started re-writing the mach64 driver from scratch
(ati_misc was a MESS).  I'll work on it as time permitts and let you
know when I have something to test.

Alex