Re: amd64 trouble - how to initialize secondary video cards?

[Hugo V. <hvw...@ya...>]

--- Helge Hafting <hel...@ai...> wrote:

> I tried booting a 64-bit ruby kernel today.

You may have answered this already. But what was your
reason to go with amd64?

H.




> Userspace is still debian i386 though.
> 
> The second display failed, because the video adapter
> need
> bios initialization.  I got this in my dmesg:
> 
> XFree86: vm86 mode not supported on 64 bit kernel
> 
> So what to do?  Is it fixable by installing a X
> compiled
> for amd64?  Or do I need to find a video card that
> doesn't
> need any bios initialization?
> 
> Helge Hafting
> 
> 
>
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