From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <44f368cca049cdd1eb9fe7b48045344f.qmail@home.pl> References: <20140319201328.GA1396@spark.home> <44f368cca049cdd1eb9fe7b48045344f.qmail@home.pl> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:17:23 +1100 Message-ID: From: Nicholas Waples To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b6700af33e03b04f5112260 Subject: Re: [9fans] Multi monitor setup Topicbox-Message-UUID: cdcc9d82-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --047d7b6700af33e03b04f5112260 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 21 Mar 2014 01:08, "Szymon Olewniczak" 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 --047d7b6700af33e03b04f5112260 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1


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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