RE: Latest analog joystick code

[Brad D. <Br...@NE...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Simmons [mailto:jsi...@ac...]
> 
>   As for multihead. Well I attempted booting today with a Voodoo 3 card
> and a Matrox Millenium card. The matrox card came up and then it tried to
> initialize my voodoo card but my system freaked out. It hung and made a
> loud noise. Has anyone here has made two PCI video cards work at the same
> time in their system with no problems? Also I had this  problem with BIOS

I'm using atyfb (Mach64 GT) and aty128fb (Rage128 Pro).

Both drivers compiled in:
My bios allows me to choose which card gets booted:

Boot atyfb:
The Mach64 comes up fine and when the Rage128 tries to initialize, it says
freeing nonexistent IO 0x9000 or something similar (0x9000 is the IO port
address of the Rage128).  The Rage128 never makes it through init, but the
system works fine as would expect with 1 video card.

Wasn't there some discussion about pci_enable_device() and multihead?  I'll
check the archives.

Boot aty128fb:
The Rage128 comes up fine.  When the Mach64 starts detection all hell breaks
loose.  I get alternating green and black horizontal bars on the Mach64 and
the system hardlocks.

Modular:
Boot atyfb and modular aty128fb:
Mach64 comes up normal.  insmod aty128fb yields nothing.  lsmod simply says
unused.  I've probably overlooked something in the code -- I rarely try
module.

Boot aty128fb and modular atyfb:
Rage128 comes up normal.  insmod atyfb is very bad. system hardlocks.
If I first softboot the Mach64 before insmoding it, I have some success.
The system is a bit touchy and will eventually hardlock (races?).

That's my $.02.

PS -
Keep a camera handy in case things start smoking...  I want pictures for the
web site ;). "When video cards attack".

Brad Douglas
br...@ne...
http://www.linux-fbdev.org