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Subject: Re: intel kms, xorg and triple head?
From: Karl Sturm <sturm.karl@gmail.com>
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2013/2/18 Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de>

>  Hello,
>
> I wasn't able to find infos about multi-head support for the new intel
> kms with FreeBSD 9.1
> Is it possible to have xorg driving 3 displays? I know of the
> two-PLL-pipe limitation with intel's IvyBrindge-CPU/GPUs. But I don't
> know if the new driver supports possible configurations? (e.G.
> 2x1600x1200 + 1x1920x1200).
> Has anybody running xorg and 3 displays with i915kms? Or is it at least
> said to be supported?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Harry
>
>
Hi Harry,

I have running xorg on my laptop with i915kms and an external flat-screen
monitor and didn't experience any problems so far.
Xrandr works a treat.

Cheers,

Karl