Re: Questions on more than one framebuffer device

["Cheshire Cat Fish" <cat_fish@hotmail.com>]

> > I am wondering if it is even a problem with my driver now.   Xfree86 
>should
> > be able to run with multiple fbdev drivers, right?
>
>No :-( There exist a bunch of patches for this tho :-)

ugh. What patches?  Where do I get them from and how do I apply them?

Ok, here is what I have:
- Two graphics adapters, each of which supports two monitors (four screens 
total)
- a frame buffer driver that creates four frame buffer devices: /dev/fb0 and 
/dev/fb1 on the first card (PCI:0:10:0), and /dev/fb2 and /dev/fb3 on the 
second card (PCI:0:11:0).  It does this by calling "register_framebuffer" 
four times

I was hoping that I would be able to run X on these four monitors using the 
fvdev driver.  I have tried many combinations of options in my XF86Config 
file and have not hit upon the magic configuration.

I can run X on any one of the /dev/fb* devices and it works great.  As soon 
as I enable two or more things go wrong.

Now I have heard conflicting opinions on whether XFree86 and the fbdev 
driver even support such a thing...

Noel.
--
A precariously balanced mixture of myopic optimism and rampant paranoia.

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