Re: Multi-seat X crashes

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

Helge Hafting wrote:
> I think you may cut down on the time for this by starting (and killing)
> one xserver that uses all the screens at once.  It will then initialize
> all those
> adapters.  This should be a safe approach, as xserver support for using
> many cards (for a single user) is very old.  You'll need an extra xorg.conf
> file of course.
Thanks, that works nicely.  I'll have to do some major changes to my
scripts if I'm going to make it semi-automagic, but for now hardcoding
works.  It probably cut the time in half, the remaining time being VGA
BIOS initialization.

> Anyway, loading the framebuffer driver _after_ this initialization
> completes, is supposed to work.  Make sure the driver isn't
> present before though, or it will give up too early on those
> uninitialized cards.
Now I'm having problems getting the fbdev driver to work.  Even with
only one card in the machine and a config file generated by
`dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg` for fbdev, it fails with:

(EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
(EE) FBDEV(0): mode initialization failed

I'm getting 2.6.11 built, so I can build a backstreet-ruby version as
suggested to maybe deal with bus issues.  I'll also try the
just-released 2.6.13 as /. made mention of significant PCI changes,
which if I'm really hitting a bus contention issue (whcih I've suspected
from the beginning but have not the slightest chance of confirming)
might make a difference one way or another...