Re: Multi-seat X crashes

[Erik W. <om...@vc...>]

Helge Hafting wrote:
> There are further difficulties
> if you're trying for a fb per head on a multihead card, but one
> fb per card is supposed to work.
AFAIK only the Matrox fb driver currently actually does multiple fb
devices.  Though Radeon cards have had multiple CRTCs for years now...

> The device-nodes /dev/fb1, /dev/fb2, and so on exists?
Via udev, yes, as needed.

> What happens if you compile the framebuffer driver into the kernel,
> instead of using a module?  Or if you tries to load that module
> a second time?
I'll try compiling it in, but I don't think I can load the module
multiple times.

> It likely won't, though.  There is a way around this, but it is long.
This is basically what I'm doing to initialize the cards currently, with
a script that starts up and kills each X server in sequence, with
SingleCard "false".  Otherwise the SingleCard "true" server for any but
the "primary" card will lock the machine at startup.

Is there any code out there to execute the int10 VGA BIOS without having
to start up a whole X server?