From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Antonino Daplas Subject: Re: fb and multiple adapters Date: 03 Jan 2003 18:22:01 +0800 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1041589354.992.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20021228003919.27894.qmail@web14910.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from panoramix.vasoftware.com ([198.186.202.147] ident=mail) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18UQar-0006de-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 04:06:29 -0800 Received: from willow.compass.com.ph ([202.70.96.38]:4787) by panoramix.vasoftware.com with esmtp (Exim 4.05-VA-mm1 #1 (Debian)) id 18UQao-0004DK-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 04:06:26 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20021228003919.27894.qmail@web14910.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jon Smirl Cc: Linux Fbdev development list On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 08:39, Jon Smirl wrote: > I'm looking into running framebuffers on multiple > video adapters. My current setup has an ATI AGP Radeon > 9000 as the primary adapter and a ATI PCI Rage128 as > the secondary. > > The Rage128 driver won't load in this config. So the > first thing I did was to add my board's id to it, PD. > Now I'm at the point where the expansion ROM isn't > enabled and the adapter isn't initialized. > > Should I add code to aty128fb to enable the ROM and > execute the initialization code (like X does)? What > the overall policy towards framebuffers initializing > secondary adapters? > No policy really. However, doing that will involve setting up a "real mode" (bit 16) environment to intercept BIOS int10 calls which are necessary to initialize the graphics ROM. If I need too, I usually do this the hard way, I let X initialize the secondary card, exit X, then load the framebuffer driver module. Tony ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf