From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ville =?iso-8859-1?Q?Syrj=E4l=E4?= Subject: Re: Fw: atyfb doesn't work for me Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 20:22:10 +0300 Message-ID: <20060404172210.GA7425@sci.fi> References: <20060404030318.3c80b12a.akpm@osdl.org> <20060404151655.GA28811@sci.fi> <87d5fxb7zp.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FQpEQ-0003eM-0C for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:22:18 -0700 Received: from gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi ([195.197.172.116]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1FQpEO-0000z7-KS for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:22:18 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d5fxb7zp.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Greg Stark Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:50:18PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: >=20 > Ville Syrj=E4l=E4 writes: >=20 > > Unfortunately atyfb relies on the BIOS to initialize the card. You se= em=20 > > to have multiple cards in your system which won't work. >=20 > Hum. And I was trying it out in the hopes of working around a bug in th= e X > server that's preventing it from initializing those cards (neither are = the > primary card). >=20 > There isn't some standalone user-space program to initialize them out t= here 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/ --=20 Ville Syrj=E4l=E4 syrjala@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642