Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2004-08-18

Re: sparc64, 2 x mach64 & 2.6.8-rc4: no working XFree86

From: Admar Schoonen <hidden>
Date: 2004-08-18 19:25:23

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:21:45AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
quoted
With 2.6.X (X <= 7), only the primary (onboard) card worked ; secondary
was always black in console and in XFree86.
con2fb was broken before that version.
I doubt that the problem is con2fbmap. con2fbmap works fine with 2.4.x
and 2.6.8-rcX (I guess 2.6.8 will work fine too).
quoted
Starting with 2.6.8-rc1, the console works on both cards again, however,
XFree86 doesn't work anymore. It crashes with signal 11 even before it
can display it's famous black & white dot pattern.
I tried with 1 PCI and 1 AGP nVidia card, PCI is primary.  I use vesafb on the
primary, and I have no problems launching X on the secondary.  If I initialize
the secondary card's ROM-BIOS, I can also modprobe rivafb and launch X-fbdev on
both the primary and secondary.

I cannot use rivafb for both because of conflicts.
I guess my problem is Ati (Mach64 only?) and/or sparc (sparc64 only?)
related. I haven't tested X-fbdev.

Admar


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