| Summary: | nv driver doesn't support multiple outputs on a single device | ||
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| Product: | xorg | Reporter: | Marijn Schouten <M.Schouten> |
| Component: | Driver/nVidia (open) | Assignee: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.1 (2006.05) | ||
| Hardware: | x86 (IA32) | ||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||
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Description
Marijn Schouten
2006-09-29 05:13:45 UTC
Do you mean that it doesn't support multiple outputs on a single device? That's not Xinerama - Xinerama is merely a mechanism for making multiple screens act as one logical screen, so "doesn't support xinerama on a single device" doesn't make sense. >Do you mean that it doesn't support multiple outputs on a single device?
yes, that is what I meant.
as the proprietary nvidia driver probably suffers from unacceptable security holes(http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228) I'd really like to use the free software driver. But because the free software driver doesn't support the two outputs on my 7900GT I cannot use both my screens. I want to know if anyone is working on this or how difficult it would be to add such support myself. PS. Please change the NEEDINFO status Clearing the NEEDINFO since the questions from comment #1 were answered in #2. (This will mark the bug as ASSIGNED even though I doubt anyone is actually working on this since I don't think anyone outside nVidia has the necessary information to do so without reverse engineering.) I've already sent a complaint to nvidia. What kind of info is needed for making the nv driver multihead capable? Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys. Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future. |
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