From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200004242105.XAA00390@piglet.grunz.lu> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 23:05:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Michel Lanners Reply-To: mlan@cpu.lu Subject: Re: aty128 and offb and linux-2.3.99pre6 To: geert@linux-m68k.org cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On 24 Apr, this message from Geert Uytterhoeven echoed through cyberspace: > On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Chas Williams wrote: >> In message <200004240651.IAA00313@piglet.grunz.lu>,Michel Lanners writes: >> >It does work... but it changes the order my fbs are detected. Grrr.... >> >> i have to agree. this is fairly annoying since i have 2 rage pro's >> (one on the agp and one on the pci bus) and the console should be on >> the agp! > > Huh? This has nothing to do with the order of 2 RAGE PROs. Atyfb is probed for > before offb (like it should be) since a long time, and the order is always the > same. > > Try `video=map:1' to map all your virtual consoles to the second card. Geert, is there any documentation available about these things? Like how you go about 'advanced' framebuffer use (multiple fb's, switching consoles between fb's, ...)? Where are the userland tools, and what do they do (fbset and others)? I do have some things figured out, but am still not really comfortable with framebuffers... Thanks Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email mlan@cpu.lu | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/