Re: Newbie seeks help

[Aivils <ai...@un...>]

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 11:23, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> * Svetoslav Slavtchev (sv...@gm...) [040720 07:17]:
> > > I have a machine with multipul VGA cards, and USB, I would love to set
> > > this up so that I can have several people use this in console mode, each
> > > tty on a seperate monitor and usb Keyboard and mouse? 
> > 
> > http://startx.times.lv/
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/
> > http://disjunkt.com/dualhead/
> > 
> > you may also want to chack this url
> > http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead/index-en.php
> 
> actually the console does not work here. i do remember that there
> was some trick with loading framebuffer modules in a special
> order. how did that work? 

No triks. fbcon seems contain bugs. My test adapters is too old and
maintainer-less (Voodoo 1, ATI 3D rage). tdfxfb will not work on 2 adapters.

Triks work for xf86 driver load sequence.

> nowerdays i have these graphics 
> adapters:
> 
> /bin/lspci | grep VGA
> 0000:00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 82)
Just try 4 sequences:
1)
modprobe matroxfb
modprobe radeonfb
modprobe fbcon
2)
modprobe radeonfb
modprobe matroxfb
modprobe fbcon
3)
modprobe radeonfb
modprobe fbcon
4)
modprobe matroxfb
modprobe fbcon
:)

Secondary xf86 may stop Your console output.
In may case i oft  do blindly login and type "consolechars -d", which
command restores VGA fonts. After "consolechars -d" VGA is usable until
any xf86 restart.

Aivils