Re: Latest analog joystick code

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

> Yes. I had 4 Matroxes (Millennium I, Millennium II, Mystique and
> G200-AGP) in box for some time... It worked fine (with some fbmem
> patches which prevented me from doing stupid things). It was 4x matroxfb.

Patches :) Post them for us to look at. 

> I had also running matrox (G200) with ATI-GX (atyfb, vga16fb)...

I have a ATI GX but with a strange RAMDAC that's not supported yet.
That's later on the list.

> You should try swap your two videocards, making Matrox second head.

Voodoo is AGP and Matrox is PCI. My BIOS doesn't have any functions to
switch the detection. I changed the order in fbmem to get matrox going
first.

> You should also add 'video=matrox:novga,nobios' to your command line,

By default matrox uses the BIOS? 

> but you should know that if you do it, it is possible that after
> reboot Voodo becomes your primary display or machine will not reboot
> without poweroff at all...

A cool poweroff should fix this right? 

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

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