[MPlayer-users] mga_vid VT switching hangs

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:25:11PM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:54:20PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > 
> > Anyway, if you're having crashes and you're using binaryware, the
> > obvious fix is to get rid of the binaryware. It's definitely possible
> > to use dualhead X on G400 without HAL, although it might require
> > making the second head non-accelerated.
> 
> How?  This idea has been put forth on this list previously, and at that
> point I mentioned that I was never able to get it to work, and whoever
> claimed that it had worked never replied. :(  The only way I see using
> the second head without the HAL is to use fbdev for *both* heads, which
> is not a nice compromise.

Get rid of HAL entirely, try driver "mga" with Option "UseFBDev" "1"
for the primary head, and driver "fbdev" with device /dev/fb1 for the
second head. It should work and will give you full acceleration on the
primary head.

Rich