From: Nicholas Waples <nwaples@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Multi monitor setup
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:17:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+STej4CT_V1XW4YkYO8iEs_6Vm5OTc-FC-DPgKHhGAw=GTUdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44f368cca049cdd1eb9fe7b48045344f.qmail@home.pl>
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On 21 Mar 2014 01:08, "Szymon Olewniczak" <szymon.olewniczak@rid.pl> wrote:
>
> >> is there any support to dual monitor setup?
> >
> >no.
> >
> >> Can I rotate monitor in plan 9?
> >
> >no.
> >
> >> How does support of video cards looks like in general?
> >
> >poor.
> >
> >see /sys/src/9/pc/vga*.c files. most of these are very old. the only
> >realiable way to use a video card on 32- and 64-bit intel platforms is
> >to use VESA.
>
> Ok, I understeand. So, maybe it's a good idea as a gsoc proposal. Do you
> think that it will be hard to implement this features in nvidia cards,
using
> nouveau project as a reference?
>
I did hack up basic dual monitor support for the nvidia drivers, but that
was a long time ago.
http://9fans.net/archive/2004/09/146
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-20 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-19 20:13 Szymon Olewniczak
2014-03-20 11:38 ` Nick Owens
2014-03-20 14:04 ` Szymon Olewniczak
2014-03-20 14:15 ` erik quanstrom
2014-03-20 19:45 ` Szymon Olewniczak
2014-03-20 22:17 ` Nicholas Waples [this message]
2014-03-21 0:39 ` erik quanstrom
2014-03-21 8:44 ` Jiten Pathy
2014-03-21 9:11 ` Jiten Pathy
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