Help request - Xfree 4.2.0, Mandrake 8.2, bruby 2.4.25

[Daniel L. <dan...@ya...>]

Hello list,

I've been experimenting with the Backstreet Ruby patch and I feel that I
almost have it working, but I'm having difficulty getting X running on my
second or third graphics card. I'm hoping someone on the list can kindly
give me some help. (please?!)

Setup:
 - Duron 1.6
 - VIA KT4AV Motherboard
 - 512MB
 - 3 * PCI Sapphire ATI Radeon 7000 32MB (0:5:0, 0:6:0, 0:7:0)
 - Mandrake 8.2
 - 1 standard PS2 keyboard
 - 1 USB keyboard
 - 2 USB mice

The kernel works just fine (I think). I downloaded a clean 2.4.25, patched
it, mkinitrd'd, grub'd, no problems. USB is compiled as modules, because the
Mandrake init scripts seem to like it like that.

X server is installed from XFree86-concurrent-server-4.2.0-10mdk.i586.rpm
and I'm not using /proc/bus/pci/hackvideo

I can start 'X0' as :0 on the first PCI card with either keyboard (vt7 or
vt17), and either mouse (/dev/input/mouse0 or mouse1), so it seems the
inputs are all in /dev/input (devfs) correctly.


So here's the problem... After stopping X0 (no X server running at all now),
I cannot get X1 to start on the second PCI card, using:

	startx -- /usr/X11R6.bin/X1 :1 -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4-X1 -layout
X1 vt17 > tmp.log 2>&1

The console display I'm on goes blank (but monitor isn't entering power
saving mode), no LEDs function on the keyboard, and as far as I can tell
Linux hangs. There's no /var/log/XFree.1.log after rebooting to single user
mode / rc3, and the last messages I can see in my tmp.log read :

  (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI 0:5:0)
found
  (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI 0:7:0)
found

The file XF86Config-4-X1 contains:

  Section "Device"
    Identifier	"ATI Radeon 2"
    VendorName	""
    BoardName	""
    Driver	"radeon"
    Option	"DPMS" "off"
    BusID	"PCI:0:6:0"
  EndSection

  Section "Screen"
    Identifier "screen2"
    Device "ATI Radeon 2"
    Montior "monitor2"
    ...
  EndSection

  Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "X1"
    Screen "screen2"
    InputDevice "USB Mouse 2" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard2" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "SingleCard" "true"
    #Option "PrefBusID" "0:6:0" # does this work?
  EndSection


I tried using -prefbusid, but the XFree-concurrent I've got doesn't seem to
recognise it?

So, please, can someone suggest where I might be going wrong?!

Many thanks for any help offered,

Dan
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