Re: Fw: atyfb doesn't work for me

["Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:50:18PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
> 
> Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi> writes:
> 
> > Unfortunately atyfb relies on the BIOS to initialize the card. You seem 
> > to have multiple cards in your system which won't work.
> 
> Hum. And I was trying it out in the hopes of working around a bug in the X
> server that's preventing it from initializing those cards (neither are the
> primary card).
> 
> There isn't some standalone user-space program to initialize them out there is
> there? Or anything else maybe that would help?

There's vbetool but I don't think it handles secondary cards.

IIRC SciTech had some solution to the problem... and google found it :)
http://www.scitechsoft.com/ftp/snap/linux/videoboot/

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Ville Syrjälä
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