Framebuffer + multiple displays
 

Hi everyone,

I havea machine that is running framebuffer and I want to add a second display to it (so that I can watch movies on the second display and still have use of the primary display).

I was wondering what options I have for getting `mplayer` to output to a second display? At the moment the output is just cloned across two displays. Would I need a framebuffer window manager? or write an app using QT/GTK+ framebuffer libraries?

Any suggestions are appreciated,

Cheers.

I don't believe that framebuffer can do that for you. What video card do you have?

Hmm.

Well the graphics is an onboard intel which would use the i810 driver for xorg. With the dual head display enabled I only have one /dev/fb[0] device. I was hoping if i was able to have 2 fb devices recognised i could set a tty to that device?

Or would something like `Xfbdev` work? I've seen a box running it with dual head display but I can't seem to find much information on it.

One thing that came to my mind was the Xinerama option in xorg. Maybe that can do some of what you want.

Well that's the reason I was asking about framebuffer, I don't want to use something as big as xorg since this is intended to run on a compact flashcard in an embedded device. I've been reading about kdrive / tinyx as an embedded solution but it seems to be a bit bloaty still (30Mb source files...)