dualhead hope G4 ibook 1.33GHz

[Kristo]

Greetings,

Anyone with dualhead success please join in. . .  here is some hope I will be
investigating in the coming week.  Although my terminal experience is very
limitied, it may take longer.

http://www.remote.org/jochen/projects/jvc/XF86Config-4.dual


Health & Happiness,
Kristo
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Quoting Andrew Zschetzsche <zsche004 at mrs.umn.edu>:

> I tried desperately to get my dual monitor to work on my iBook G4 1.2ghz and
> came very close, but no cigar.  I got the same image to be mirrored, but the
> colormap got all screwed up (in-depth googling leads me to believe that the
> video card ran out of memory. (?!?)
> 
> I just hosed my YDL 4 install trying to upgrade via source to Gnome 2.8.  It
> was not fun.  If the config file still exists after an install, I'll post
> it.
> 
> Andy Z.
> 
> 
> On 12/14/04 5:57 PM, "Cian Duffy" <myob87 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Have you altered the X config file at all?
> > 
> > Firstly you'll want to move off the fbdev driver to the 2D
> > accelerating one - this should just involve changing the driver from
> > "fbdev" to "radeon"
> > 
> > Theres a few more options to get 3D acceleration and better colour
> > depths as well
> > 
> > I can mail you my 12" 1.2Ghz's XF86Config file tomorrow morning (8
> > hours from now, whatever that is your time), which has the same card
> > and has no refresh issues (that an Irish eye used to 50Hz power and
> > hence 50Hz and not 60Hz TV's can see) and 2D/3D setup, if you need it.
> > Never tried dual monitor though.
> > 
> > Cian



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