Re: Latest analog joystick code

[Steffen S. <s.s...@ph...>]

James Simmons wrote:
 
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 09:32:26PM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> >
> > > vc_data we can have. With the present console system we have 64 allocated
> > > vc_data structs for one head. With fbdev you can have up to 256 heads and
> > > USB up to 127 keyboards.
> >
> > Well, no. 127 keyboards on one USB bus. And you can have multiple USB
> > busses - current VIA chipsets implement two, and there are Opti chips
> > that implement four USB busses on one chip.
> 
> Ah :) How do you plan to get around the 256 device limit or does devfs fix
> that ? I know right now the limit for fbdev is set at 32 but can be easily
> changed to 256. Just change FB_MAX to 256. So we can have at least 256
> complete VTs. Maybe more :) Only if motherboards had enough slots!

As if that would be a serious limitation... From my KGI coding, I can only
recommend you to impose no limits by the code you write but live with
the limitations of the environment.

>   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.

Welcome to the wonderful world of multihead video hardware programming.
It's just nice to see the problems I have gone through seem to be
inherent to the subject, not my fault :-)).

> Has anyone here has made two PCI video cards work at the same
> time in their system with no problems?


Yes. S3 968 with S3 Trio, S3 968 with PermediaNT, PermediaNT with Permedia2,
Permedia2 with Permedia2 (different vendors).
As long as your drivers are capable of cold-booting the card...

> Also I had this problem with BIOS
> with 2 keyboards. I used your trick to make the computer use the PS/2
> mouse port for another PS/2 keyboard. It works after boot time. If I plug
> both in and turn my computer on it confuses my BIOS and just hanges there.

On my BIOSes this happens only the first time.

			Steffen

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