From: Antonino A. D. <ad...@ho...> - 2004-11-22 22:14:21
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On Tuesday 23 November 2004 05:35, Andrew Walrond wrote: > I asked this a few months ago: > > On Saturday 19 Jun 2004 21:25, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > On Saturday 19 June 2004 21:55, Andrew Walrond wrote: > > > I need to setup a machine to develop a framebuffer based application. > > > I'd like to use two graphics devices; The first an ati agp chipset on > > > the motherboard which will run X11 with X11's ati driver, the second a > > > PCI card running a fb driver and displaying my framebuffer application. > > > > > > Is this possible/sensible? > > > > Sure, it's possible and actually not hard to do. Just make sure that the > > driver of your primary card is fbdev, and the secondary X11. X happens > > to do a fine job of initializing non-primary cards whereas fbdev is > > mostly restricted to cards initialized by the firmware. > > I've got this working nicely now. I have a recent agp nvidia card and an > old pci matrox millenium in this dual opteron machine running 64bit linux. > I boot into a console on the matrox using the built-in matroxfb driver, > then startx which runs on the nvidia card using the nv driver. I can then > work on my fb application in X, viewing the output on the second monitor > via the matrox card. Nice! > > > Note: You wont' be able to see both displays simultaneously, switching > > from one blanks the other. If you do want multi-seat, see the Ruby > > project of linuxconsole. > > This is wrong; I can indeed see both displays simultaneously :) That sounds very nice :-). So I was wrong. I probably should have said that you cannot display multiple consoles simultaneously. Tony |