Re: Latest analog joystick code

[Petr V. <van...@vc...>]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 11:11:00PM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > 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. 

You know them... they add FBIOPUT_VT_... and, as side effect,
returns -EXDEV when doing FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO when you should not...
ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/multihead.gz. This
patch was generated for something like 2.3.49...

> > 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.

If it has CH8398, then I had patches for it... Unfortunately, I stopped
maintaining them sometime during last year. Maybe Geert or someone still
has them...

> > You should also add 'video=matrox:novga,nobios' to your command line,
> 
> By default matrox uses the BIOS? 

No, but Voodoo may need videobios range for its own BIOS... If system
BIOS or pci_enable_device() did not enable I/O or BIOS, then matroxfb
will not enable it. But if it is enabled when matroxfb loads, it can
disable them... I needed it for running matroxfb in PowerStack PPC,
otherwise it crashed with sigbus.

> > 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? 

It depends on BIOS and computer hardware. I have one ATX which I have to
unplug from power if I boot with nobios...
					Petr Vandrovec
					van...@vc...