Re: [PATCH] neofb patches

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>]

On Wednesday 28 April 2004 08:29, Otto Solares wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 07:46:33PM -0400, John Zielinski wrote:
> > An added bonus is that if you have multiple video cards or a dual head
> > configuration with each head on a different fbx device the 5,255 device
> > would figure out which console you are on when you start the program and
> > use the appropriate fb device.  Once the radeon dual head code gets
> > written I'll have to try to start X on fb0 (head 1) and leave the fbcon
> > running on fb1 (head two).
>
> I was wondering if it is possible currently (kernel 2.6.5) to
> have 2 differents video cards in 2 differents VCs and in 2
> differents fbdev's.  I have an old trident pci card and one
> radeon agp card.  I want to run X (Xfbdev) in the trident one
> and mesa-solo in the radeon one, is that possible? how?
>

Yes, I've tried that in 2.5.x, assuming nothing broke in between.  You need a 
utility to map which console to which fbdev (con2fbmap?).  However, you can't 
use them simultaneously (switching to one console inactivates the other), 
that's for the ruby project.

Tony





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