On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:43:46AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > 2) If you hack out the VT switching out of X, then still each X server
> > will disable all PCI resources for other video cards, because it
> > believes it owns the system. This will freeze all other active X
> > servers.
>
> Do X somehow _depend_ on disabling other cards or is this
> another thing that could be #ifdefed out?
> Assuming, of course that the resources don't
> overlap in any unhealthy way.
They do. Almost always, there is the legacy VGA i/o space, which is
needed to initialize the secondary card(s) by BIOS ran in vm86 space.
After #ifdefing the disabling out, the Xservers crashed reproducibly.
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