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From: - <an...@he...> - 2004-08-29 19:01:39
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I am using i865G and 2.6 kernel series and I would like to use pivot. (Us= e my monitor in portrait.) It seems the options available are quite thin for m= e: - Xrandr rotation doesn't generally work on Linux platform - i810fb doesn't recognize my i865G=20 - intelfb hasn't been ported to 2.6 series - Intel's version of the driver doesn't support rotation - VesaFB. Works. VesaFB works alright as long as I don't rotate the view. When I rotate th= e performance turns (understandably) completely horrible. 1280x1024x16 rota= ted CCW is extremely slow and practically not usable at all. Is there or will there be any sorts of development that will remedy the situation? |
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From: Otto W. <ott...@or...> - 2004-08-27 18:04:31
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Jean Delvare wrote: > > I am the happy owner of an (ATI Radeon 9200-based) HIS Excalibur 9200 ViVo > Where I live the HIS Excalibur 9200 Vivo isn't available, only the HIS Excalibur 9200 SE which is much slower. There is a Sapphire Radeon 9600 SE and the Sapphire Radeon 9600 which is 1.5 as expensive but I have no information about them. > However, I doubt that support for your current Radeon 7500 card cannot be > brought back, especially if it works OK with 2.4 kernels. Changing hardware to > workaround software issues doesn't sound like a good policy ;) > I currently don't have the time to care much for a good policy (see "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net"). I'd really like to finally delve into the kbuild facility of the 2.6 kernels and document it here, so everybody can try out new framebuffer drivers or build the DirectFB fusion driver. But as long as my problem persist I can't switch to the 2.6 kernel. Of course a patch which solves my problems would be much better. > [2] I need a patch to be able to force 1280x1024 at boot, but I guess it's > A really simple workaround, which works with any framebuffer, is to put a "/usr/sbin/fbset -a 1280x1024-60" into your "/etc/profile". Before I switched to DVI cable I had this for years with at least 3 different graphic cards, of course first only with "800x600". O. Wyss -- See a huge pile of work at "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/" |
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From: sean d. <sea...@ho...> - 2004-08-27 16:38:29
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Booting up with a Radeon 8500 on i386; boot options: video=radeonfb:1024x768-32@100 dmesg shows: radeonfb: Invalid ROM signature 0 should be 0xaa55 radeonfb: Retreived PLL infos from BIOS radeonfb: Reference=27.00 MHz (RefDiv=12) Memory=230.00 Mhz, System=190.00 MHz radeonfb: Reversed DACs detected radeonfb: Monitor 1 type CRT found radeonfb: EDID probed radeonfb: Monitor 2 type no found radeonfb: ATI Radeon BB DDR SGRAM 64 MB radeonfb: cannot map MMIO radeonfb: probe of 0000:01:00.1 failed with error -5 I assume the invalid ROM is just a warning, and the Monitor 2 type is dvdi, but what's the probe fail? sean |
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From: Chad D. <cd...@cs...> - 2004-08-27 16:18:27
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At Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 03:34:34AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > "Antonino A. Daplas" wrote: > > > > On Saturday 21 August 2004 02:04, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > Is that normal? When I "fbset 1280x1024-60" the screen resolution is > > > switched but the screen isn't readable. Any idea how to solve this problem? ... > > Could it be that the radeonfb doesn't handle my ATI Radeon 7500 correct? > Or is the ATI Radeon 7500 not very useful? But why does it work with > 2.4.26 then? I have a Radeon 7500 QW (PCI ID 5157) which works just fine on both DVI and VGA, though it was my experience that it liked a 61 Hz refresh rate better for 1280x1024 on VGA. You might try booting with 'video=radeonfb:1280x1024@61' or similar. My card is drunk and reports the DFP size as 1024x768, but the monitor has a correct EDID block and the new I2C/DDC code initializes it just fine on its own in 2.6. -- Chad Daelhousen My opinions are my own, unless UB purchases my soul. |
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From: Jean D. <kh...@li...> - 2004-08-27 07:54:06
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> Which is the best framebuffer supported graphics card without a > cooler, has a DVI, is reasonably priced (below 100$) and also usable > with DirectFB? I am the happy owner of an (ATI Radeon 9200-based) HIS Excalibur 9200 ViVo [1], which I chose for these very reasons (fanless, DVI, low price). Now works fine with both 2.4 [2] and 2.6 kernels as far as I am concerned, but I'm not much into performance tweaks or fancy stuff. All I really care is the high number of rows and columns. I may run tests in case you want to make sure that the card qualifies as "best framebuffer supported graphics", you just have to ask. However, I doubt that support for your current Radeon 7500 card cannot be brought back, especially if it works OK with 2.4 kernels. Changing hardware to workaround software issues doesn't sound like a good policy ;) [1] http://www.hisdigital.com/html/9200vivo.htm [2] I need a patch to be able to force 1280x1024 at boot, but I guess it's related to my flat panel display returning incorrect information, not to the graphics adapter itself. -- Jean "Khali" Delvare http://khali.linux-fr.org/ |
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From: Otto W. <ott...@or...> - 2004-08-27 01:34:47
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"Antonino A. Daplas" wrote: > > On Saturday 21 August 2004 02:04, Otto Wyss wrote: > > Is that normal? When I "fbset 1280x1024-60" the screen resolution is > > switched but the screen isn't readable. Any idea how to solve this problem? > > The fbset problem should be fixed in 2.6.8.1 > I've just tried kernel 2.6.8-1 but the problem persists. Neither sets the radeonfb driver the resolution correct (still 80x25 chars) nor is it possible to use fbset (screen unreadable). I've removed all the others framebuffer drivers so only radeonfb is used but with no effect. I've also tried both DVI and VGA but both shows the same effect. Could it be that the radeonfb doesn't handle my ATI Radeon 7500 correct? Or is the ATI Radeon 7500 not very useful? But why does it work with 2.4.26 then? Which is the best framebuffer supported graphics card without a cooler, has a DVI, is reasonably priced (below 100$) and also usable with DirectFB? O. Wyss -- See a huge pile of work at "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/" |
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From: Kilian C. <kil...@cr...> - 2004-08-25 16:36:40
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Hi all, I'd like to know if it would be possible to run a 1920x1200 framebuffer console, on a 2.6.x series kernel, and with a nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go. For now, I have a 1600x1200 console which leaves vertical black bars on each side of the screen, and I'd like to use the whole available screen area. Vesafb does not seem to include such a resolution, while rivafb does not want to display anything else than a black screen (as far as I tried, with a 2.6.8) Does anybody has already done this? TIA, -- Kilian CAVALOTTI | GPGKeyId: 0xD657340C BOFH excuse #436: Daemon escaped from pentagram |
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From: <ni...@al...> - 2004-08-25 10:51:45
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Hi all! Is it possible to use multiple graphic cards (i.e. a AGP G200 and a pair of PCI Milennium II) and to visualize multiple framebuffers *simultaneously*? All I want to do is to use a text console or X on the G200 (/dev/fb0) and to visualize some application's output on /dev/fb1 and /dev/fb2 without having to switch console and, above all, avoiding the system to blank consoles without focus (i.e., while in X on /dev/fb0 it would be useful to do something like "tail /var/log/messages > /dev/tty12" where tty12 could be bind to /dev/fb2). Thanks. --Niteowl |
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From: <fee...@li...> - 2004-08-23 19:16:32
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begin mail (beg...@12...) has submitted this feedback os:gentoo linux kernel:2.6.8.1 cpu:athlon xp 1800+ The vesafb suceeded in loading framebuffer in vga=771,but failed even in vga=773. I need a 1024x768 resolution with framebuffer.Is there the way to change the vesafb driver to fit my video card? $ dmesg |grep vesa vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6 And hereis ddcprobe\'s output: VESA 3.0 detected. OEM Name: NVIDIA Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation Product Name: NV18 Board Product Revision: Chip Rev A2 Memory installed = 1024 * 64k blocks = 65536kb Supported standard modes: 640x400x256 640x480x256 800x600x16 800x600x256 1024x768x16 1024x768x256 1280x1024x16 1280x1024x256 80x60 (text) 132x25 (text) 132x43 (text) 132x50 (text) 132x60 (text) 320x200x64k 320x200x16m 640x480x64k 640x480x16m 800x600x64k 800x600x16m 1024x768x64k 1024x768x16m 1280x1024x64k 1280x1024x16m EDID ver. 1 rev. 3. Manufacturer: SAM ID: 0022 EISA ID: SAM0022 Serial number: 414e3137. Manufactured in week 1 of 2003. Input signal type: analog signal. Screen size max 32 cm horizontal, 24 cm vertical. Gamma: 1.820000. DPMS flags: RGB, active off, no suspend, no standby. Established timings: 640x480 @ 60 Hz (VGA) 640x480 @ 75 Hz (VESA) 800x600 @ 60 Hz (VESA) Standard timing 0: 60 Hz, 640x480 Standard timing 1: 85 Hz, 640x480 Standard timing 2: 85 Hz, 800x600 Standard timing 3: 85 Hz, 1024x768 Standard timing 4: 60 Hz, 1280x1024 Detailed timing 0: Pixel clock: 94500000 Horizontal active time (pixel width): 256 Horizontal blank time (pixel width): 1120 Vertical active time (pixel height): 0 Vertical blank time (pixel height): 808 Horizontal sync offset: 48 Horizontal sync pulse width: 96 Vertical sync offset: 3 Vertical sync pulse width: 1 Dimensions: 56x490 Monitor details 1: Timing ranges: horizontal = 30 - 71, vertical = 50 - 160 Monitor details 2: Name: SyncMaster Monitor details 3: Serial number: HVCW100208 Best regards, Begin mail |
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From: Antonino A. D. <ad...@ho...> - 2004-08-21 13:33:30
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On Friday 20 August 2004 23:31, Otto Wyss wrote: > Torgeir Veimo wrote: > > > effort to increase quality and quantity of the framebuffer drivers. > > > > This is sorely needed. A good start would probably be a functionality > > chart of the different fb drivers. > > I intend to change the status page into a functionality chart. First I > have to know which functionality exists and are important enough to be > listed. Any imput is welcomed. > Suggestion: A. Common to all: Hardware: 1. color depths and color visuals supported 2. can the driver pan on the y-axis? 3. can the driver pan on the x-axis? 4. can the hardware state be changed (ie with fbset)? 5. access to framebuffer (fb_read/fb_write/mmap) 6. access to MMIO space Console: 1. can it accelerate imageblit (font drawing) 2. can it accelerate copyarea (block transfers) 3. can it accelerate fillrect (block sets) Video Mode setting: 1. How is the video mode set (more than 1 can be chosen)? a. at driver load b. user-specified modelines (ie. fbset) c. global mode database d. EDID/private mode database e. EDID/GTF calculation f. driver-specific method B. Miscellaneous: a. support for interrupts on vsync/vblank b. ioctl for vsync/vblank Tony |
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From: Antonino A. D. <ad...@ho...> - 2004-08-21 13:33:28
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On Saturday 21 August 2004 02:04, Otto Wyss wrote: > Is that normal? When I "fbset 1280x1024-60" the screen resolution is > switched but the screen isn't readable. Any idea how to solve this problem? The fbset problem should be fixed in 2.6.8.1 Tony |
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From: Otto W. <ott...@or...> - 2004-08-20 18:34:44
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William Estrada wrote: > > Could you please add a 'Getting started' session? Or is there one > already?? > For users? Go to the Framebuffer-HOWTO in the links section. I know it's rather old and should be overhauled. For developers? Yes I can but I'm myself not familiar with framebuffer development. So the ones who are have to give me all the information. What questions would you like to have answered? O. Wyss -- See a huge pile of work at "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/" |
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From: William E. <mru...@po...> - 2004-08-20 18:05:13
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Could you please add a 'Getting started' session? Or is there one already?? -- William Estrada -- MrUmunhum at popdial dot com -- 408-997-0743 Ymessenger ID: MrUmunhum |
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From: Otto W. <ott...@or...> - 2004-08-20 18:04:24
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While my Debian/sarge system with kernel 2.4.26 (radeonfb) runs fine,
with kernel 2.6.7 it doesn't show the correct resolution. fbset -i says
mode "1280x1024-60"
...
Frame buffer device information:
Name : ATI Radeon QW
...
Still the console is shown with 80x25 resolution. If I start modconf I
see the following video modules loaded:
cfbcopyarea
cfbfillrect
cfbimgbld
vesafb
aty/radeonfb
console/font
Is that normal? When I "fbset 1280x1024-60" the screen resolution is
switched but the screen isn't readable. Any idea how to solve this problem?
O. Wyss
--
See a huge pile of work at "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/"
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From: Otto W. <ott...@or...> - 2004-08-20 15:31:45
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Torgeir Veimo wrote: > > > effort to increase quality and quantity of the framebuffer drivers. > > This is sorely needed. A good start would probably be a functionality > chart of the different fb drivers. > I intend to change the status page into a functionality chart. First I have to know which functionality exists and are important enough to be listed. Any imput is welcomed. > Eg. the radeon driver seems to be mac hardware oriented, and doesn't > like nonstandard resolution modes provided to it at start. > Please either submit this again as a bug or a feature request in about a month when the trackers are correctly set up or send a new message which mentions "radeonfb" in the subject so a driver maintainer immediately sees the messages for his drivers. O. Wyss -- See a huge pile of work at "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/" |
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From: Jean D. <kh...@li...> - 2004-08-20 13:26:24
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> I would like to know why the vesafb driver does not support: > (...) > I have used a matrox card and been able to use these featues but having > bought an NVidia card I was suprised that they weren't supported. Wouldn't it possibly work better with rivafb? Just a thought, you may have good reasons to stick to vesafb. -- Jean "Khali" Delvare http://khali.linux-fr.org/ |
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From: Geert U. <ge...@li...> - 2004-08-20 13:11:10
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, [iso-8859-1] Ian Allman wrote:
> I would like to know why the vesafb driver does not support:
>
> Changing the screen resolution via fbset
Because it's not vesafb which sets up the initial resolution, but the BIOS (via
the vga= parameter).
To change the resolution afterwards (when the kernel is running) would require
some hackery to execute the BIOS mode selection code. Work is in progress, do a
Google search for e.g. vesafb-tng.
> Double buffering by altering the yoffset virtual to visible resolution parameter.
This should be supported. Try `video=vesafb:ypan', cfr.
Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@li...
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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From: <ian...@ya...> - 2004-08-20 12:48:43
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Hi, I would like to know why the vesafb driver does not support: Changing the screen resolution via fbset Double buffering by altering the yoffset virtual to visible resolution parameter. I have used a matrox card and been able to use these featues but having bought an NVidia card I was suprised that they weren't supported. Are these features to be added into the vesafb driver? I don't understand why they aren't supported... If anyone can help I would be much appreciative :-) Ian --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! |
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From: Jean D. <kh...@li...> - 2004-08-19 20:20:26
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> - Any driver status information is missing, ditto. Driver "radeonfb", which I am using, is missing from the list. -- Jean "Khali" Delvare http://khali.linux-fr.org/ |
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From: Torgeir V. <to...@po...> - 2004-08-19 20:15:17
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On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 21:53 +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > I hope this update motivates anyone, developers and users, to renew > any > effort to increase quality and quantity of the framebuffer drivers. This is sorely needed. A good start would probably be a functionality chart of the different fb drivers. Eg. the radeon driver seems to be mac hardware oriented, and doesn't like nonstandard resolution modes provided to it at start. -- Torgeir Veimo <to...@po...> |
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From: Otto W. <ott...@or...> - 2004-08-19 19:54:26
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Hi, since my own project wyoDesktop "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/" depends on many and good framebuffer drivers and linux-fbdev looked a little outdated I volunteered to take care of it. So far I've remove hopefully all spam messages from the mailing lists and will try to keep them clean. I also installed a new web site "http://linux-fbdev.sourceforge.net/", the old one is still available under "http://linux-fbdev.sourceforge.net/old/". Some questions about the new site: - The new driver list is just a draft of the old list. If you are the maintainer of framebuffer driver and you or your driver isn't listed, post the information here or to me. - I haven't installed CVS access for any driver so far, if you would like it for your driver just say so. To see how it goes, have a look at the wxCode project "http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/". - Any documentation is missing, please inform me what and where. - Any driver status information is missing, ditto. I hope this update motivates anyone, developers and users, to renew any effort to increase quality and quantity of the framebuffer drivers. If anyone has some spare time and wants to help out just post a message here or direct to me. O. Wyss -- See a huge pile of work at "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/" |
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From: dave g. <giv...@ya...> - 2004-08-17 07:03:49
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I've compiled a ruby kernel (linux-2.6.7-1) and booted it. It inits my 2 framebuffer devices and creates 2 dummy virtual consoles. I don't understand how to tell my framebuffer application (XDirectFB, an X server using the DirectFB framebuffer library), which virtual console/terminal to use. All I know is which framebuffer device each card is. I know how to tell XDirectFB which fb device to use. I don't know how that framebuffer device translates into virtual terminals or consoles, or any of that. What settings do I activate to get a specific frame buffer device to be on a specific virtual console/terminal so that applications using that fb device don't monopolize all the displays? :) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail |
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From: Antonino A. D. <ad...@ho...> - 2004-08-16 00:19:27
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On Monday 16 August 2004 06:30, dave giffin wrote: > Is it possible to run a regular XFree86 server on one > card and a framebuffer app on another with both still > showing? If yes how? (I only need my keyboard/mouse to > work on one server) > > Is is possible to run two separate framebuffer apps, > one on each card, and have both show up? > If yes, I could just run two XDirectFB servers > instead. > > :) > > PS: should I try using the (backstreet) ruby kernel > patch? > Short answer, yes, you have to use the ruby patch to have multi-seat. whether it be X or console. Tony |
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From: dave g. <giv...@ya...> - 2004-08-15 22:30:10
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I have a machine with 2 graphics cards (SiS 630 & ATI Radeon). I would like to run a regular XFree86 server on one card, but use the framebuffer support on the other card (I don't care which card I use for which). I can use both cards under XFree86 using Xinerama. I've compiled a 2.6.7 kernel with framebuffer support for both cards. The kernel automatically activates framebuffer support for both. But, when the SiS card is the card initialized by the BIOS, the Radeon card registers as having 0k of videoram (it has 32MB in reality). When I set the BIOS to init the radeon card, Linux successfully activates framebuffering for both. I can run a regular XFree86 server on the radeon card, and I can startup an XDirectFB (X server using the DirectFB framebuffer library) server on the SiS card. However, when I do that, the XFree86 server disappears and the XDirectFB server has a weird shadowing effect on everything (I've tried changing fb modes using fbset but it just makes the screen completely unreadable). I have run the XFree86 server and the XDirectFB server separately on one card, without any problems. Is it possible to run a regular XFree86 server on one card and a framebuffer app on another with both still showing? If yes how? (I only need my keyboard/mouse to work on one server) Is is possible to run two separate framebuffer apps, one on each card, and have both show up? If yes, I could just run two XDirectFB servers instead. :) PS: should I try using the (backstreet) ruby kernel patch? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail |
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From: dave g. <giv...@ya...> - 2004-08-15 17:26:21
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I have a machine with 2 graphics cards (SiS 630 & ATI Radeon). I would like to run a regular XFree86 server on one card, but use the framebuffer support on the other card (I don't care which card I use for which). I've compiled a 2.6.7 kernel with framebuffer support for both cards. The kernel automatically activates framebuffer support for both. I've tried compiling support for the Radeon framebuffer, but not for the SiS framebuffer. When I run that kernel, frame buffering support is not activated for either card. Is this possible to do? If yes, how? :) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail |
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