Re: tdfx & multiple voodoo cards : supposed to work ?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:15:41AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:04:15PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> > 
> > > > I have had a report of someone trying to use two voodoo cards on a
> > > > pegasos/ppc motherboard, and it freezing the kernel (2.4.22 kernel)
> > > > 
> > > > Is the tdfx fbdev supposed to be able to handle dual card setups, or not ?
> > > 
> > > No, the driver has a statically allocated fb_info. It will blow up.
> > 
> > Yeap. Also the driver uses the VGA legacy IO ports. It is possible to run 
> > the driver without BIOS support. The specs have such info. I just haven't 
> > got around to it.
> 
> Notice : this is on powerpc, but the pegasos OF has support for
> emulating x86 bioses.
> 
> What about running fbdev only on the first head, and have XFree86
> initialize the second head ? The problem is that just having the two
> boards in the box freezes the kernel.

BTW, what is the status of voodoo 4 & 5 with fbdev ? I get reports of
endianess problems, but this may also be related to XFree86, i will have
to investigate more.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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