From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Dunham Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 19:20:03 +0000 Subject: Re: Observations on CVS kernel Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org "David S. Miller" writes: > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 03:51:00 +0200 > From: Bj|rn Augustsson > If I start X (BTW, very neat startup picture!), and then switch > VCs, the parts of the screen where the "border" (in the textmode) > is isn't cleared. (I still see sort of like a frame around the > text area, where the old X graphics are left.) > > (X being the X I got when I installed UP 1.0.9. I haven't installed > any special fbcon X-server. I'm a bit surprised this server worked > at all.) > > We worked to keep the existing X server interface to using the > graphics card work as it did before. As for the VC switching problem, > I'll let Jakub handle it. > > How would I go about to set up a dual head? (X or textmode) Both > framebuffers get detected properly when booting, and the second one > (the CGsix) does _something_ (the screen clicks), but after that, > no activity ever on the second screen. > It might work if you create specific device nodes, or you run the X > server with explicit device arguments on the command line. > For dual cgsix for example I just do: > mknod /dev/cgsix0 c 29 0 > mknod /dev/cgsix1 c 29 1 > or add -dev arguments to the X command line. I use -dev. I have xdm running, so I edit "/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers" to read: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dev /dev/fb1:/dev/fb0 -fp tcp/localhost:7100 -dpi 75 (The graphics cards are a cgsix and a cgfourteen BTW. You'll want to leave out the "-fp" bit unless you use xfs.) Steve dunham@cps.msu.edu