Re: Questions on more than one framebuffer device
From: Cheshire Cat Fish <hidden>
Date: 2003-05-15 06:47:04
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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. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------------------------------- Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo, June 4-6, 2003, Santa Clara The only event dedicated to issues related to Linux enterprise solutions www.enterpriselinuxforum.com