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On Iau, 2004-08-05 at 09:56, Helge Hafting wrote: > Isn't the "unique VGA" a disappearing problem? Alas not. > Please avoid unnecessary disabling of such devices, that only causes > trouble for those of use trying to use several screens at once. (Possibly > with several simultaneous _users_, who don't want their screen disabled > for no > good reason.) Of course one may have to buy the "right" cards when > setting up > such a machine. The goal is to have a control device to arbitrate it. This doesn't generally cause a performance hit and X currently handles it internally using RAC but once you have multiple uses of VGA space the arbitration has to go kernel side - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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