Enable a second gfx-card on Linux. HOW?

From: Robin Smidsrød (robin@smidsrod.no)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 07:48:51 EST


I have recently installed a second gfx-card in my computer, and hooked up a
monitor to it. The gfx-card is a PCI-card. My primary card is an AGP-card,
and is initialized by the BIOS (Init display first: AGP).

In Windows 98 everything works ok and I have a dual-screen setup. I know the
same kind of setup isn't quite possible with XFree, but I know I should at
least be able to start an X-server on the card. (Secondary display).

As you can see from this output of lspci -v, the PCI-card is disabled. How
can I enable it, and what are the essentials of the XF86Config-file?

I've attached my current XF86Config. The problem with it, is that the SVGA
driver tries to init the secondary display on the ATI-card (which is wrong,
it should pick the ET6000).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: Tseng Labs Inc ET6000 (rev 60)
        Flags: slow devsel, IRQ 11
        Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
        I/O ports at ec00 [disabled]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 215GB [Mach64 GB] (rev 5c)
        Subsystem: Unknown device 1002:0062
        Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        I/O ports at d000
        Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

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