i855 dual head setup (possible with warty?)

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 00:51 +0200, Asko Kauppi wrote:
> There was some discussion on the list a while ago about Dual Heading 
> with Intel 855GM video adapter.  A neat sample xorg.conf file, even.
> 
> My question, would this require running Xorg (and not XFree86), or 
> should/could it work with warty as well?  Currently, the sample file 
> gives "requested entity already in use" error message for me.

It requires Xorg, I'm afraid. The XFree driver doesn't support multiple
outputs. i855crt will allow you to have simultaneous display of the same
content on two heads, though.

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