two aty128 frame buffers?

Kaoru Fukui k_fukui at highway.ne.jp
Tue Feb 5 16:21:27 EST 2002


On  4 Feb, Jeffery von Ronne wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how hard it would be to hack aty128fb to support a
> second Rage 128?  Or am I better off trying to get the X server to talk
> directly to the second card?
>
> I have two PCI Rage 128's in my G4, which I'd like to use in a
> dual-headed Xinerama set up.
>
> So far I've only been able to get the X server (4.1.0 and 4.2.0) to
> work through framebuffer driven cards (X's ati/r128 drivers with aty128fb
> and X's fbdev with offb).
>
> When I've tried to tell X to talk directly to the unmanaged video card it
> complains about some unresolved drm symbols (they're different for 4.1
> and 4.2, for 4.1 its:  "Symbol drmScatterGAtherAlooc from module
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o").  I've tried with and without
> drm supporting kernels.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

Add drm in Section Module

Section "Module"
	Load  "drm"
EndSection

Kaoru


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