Re: Latest analog joystick code

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

> I have two nVidia cards. XFree86 4.0 does not work at all (just disables
> both upon starting), but I have no problem running vgacon on the primary
> display and nvvgacon on the secondary (as well as mdacon on a third
> video card). XFree86 3.3.6 runs only on the primary, and svgalib
> (1.9.*) runs on both PCI cards. I did not try fbdev in a long time, but
> looking at the code it seems to me that it does not support a non
> primary card.

XFree86 4.0 isn't really designed for multihead. You can with fbdev support 
more than one display if the fbdev drivers are BIOS/OpenFirmware independent. 
Some like the matrox, aty and soon aty128 driver are. The program you need
to do this is con2fb. It maps a VC range to a specific framebuffer device.
Also their are boot commands to map vc to fb devices. Warning!!! If you
don't map it right you can cause a oops. I plan it fix this. To do this I
really have to do alot of code cleanup.

> I use the second keyboard (on the ps/2 mouse port) with a user mode
> program I wrote, similar to joy2key. So as far as the kernel is
> concerned I have one console, but I actually have two.
> You can see it at http://www.arava.co.il/matan/misc/ps2key-0.1.tar.gz.

I believe the input layer can do this as well. What other goods do you
have? 

Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.

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