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From: Rui Santos <rsantos@grupopie.com>
To: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Linux FB-Devel <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: radeonfb cannot map FB
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:00:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A969FA5.60501@grupopie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a728f9f90908270701j5611a4f9p4b40cb46ddd44648@mail.gmail.com>


> x86 bioses only post the primary VGA card.  For secondary cards you'll
> either need to use a driver that can initialize the card itself, or
> use something like vgaarb and vbetool to post the secondary card
> before loading the driver.  If you would prefer to use the radeon
> card, there may be an option in the bios to use the radeon card as the
> primary rather than the integrated card, however, that would probably
> make the integrated card unusable.
>
> Alex
>   
Hi Alex,

    There is no option similar to "Init Display first" on this BIOS.
Howerver both cards must be initialized. I'm trying a radeon kernel
modesetting approach. I'll also pursue vgaarb and vbetool options.
    Thanks a lot for the information ?

Regards,
Rui

>
>
>   


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  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-27 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-24 19:45 radeonfb cannot map FB Rui Santos
2009-08-24 20:20 ` Alex Deucher
2009-08-26  9:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-27 11:04   ` Rui Santos
2009-08-27 14:01     ` Alex Deucher
2009-08-27 15:00       ` Rui Santos [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-26 21:59 radeonfb: " Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-06-26 22:49 ` Kronos
2004-06-27 19:16   ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-06-27 20:33     ` Kronos
2004-06-27 21:51       ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-08-26 12:03       ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2004-08-26 17:54         ` Kronos

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