On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, dhiltgen@toocool.calpoly.edu wrote:

It appears that the issue is that somehow the kernel is using fb0
sometimes, and others it's using FRAMEBUFFER, or the "-fb" argument.
When I try to change settings using fbset it's like both frame buffers
get set at once, and one of them gets confused since the timings are only
valid for one of the cards.  ...or, the FB code in the kernel _really_
isn't very clean when it comes to multiple heads right now, and some
code just assumes /dev/fb0 is console and uses it without checking for
the proper state information.  I guess the whole thing is complicated 
by the fact that sometimes it's user space stuff, other times it's kernel 
space stuff messing with the fb.

There are known problems with multiheadness. Unfortunately I can't `see' what's
wrong until I get my second video board working. Yes, I'm embarassed by that.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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