I'm trying to figure out if I can have two framebuffers enabled
simultaneously in 2.1.126 kernel running on dual PII machine.
I have two Matrox cards on my PCI bus, the main one (which works now)
is in VGA mode, on the other one I switched VGA mode off (was I
right?).
cat /proc/PCI gives me:
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Display controller: Matrox Millennium (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdf800000 [0xdf800000].
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe3000000 [0xe3000008].
Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Matrox Millennium II (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ b.
Master Capable. No bursts.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe1000000 [0xe1000008].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdf000000 [0xdf000000].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xde800000 [0xde800000].
When I use vga=773 in bootparams, vesafb detects the VGA one perfectly:
Nov 4 14:21:37 pbunyk kernel: vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe1000000,
mapped to 0xc8800000, size 4096k
Nov 4 14:21:37 pbunyk kernel: vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8,
linelength=1024, pages=4
Nov 4 14:21:37 pbunyk kernel: vesafb: protected mode interface
info at c000:7e00
Nov 4 14:21:37 pbunyk kernel: vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Nov 4 14:21:37 pbunyk kernel: Console: switching to colour
frame buffer device 128x48
Nov 4 14:21:37 pbunyk kernel: fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
What should I do to initialize the SECOND framebuffer? I want it to
run XF86FB on the second card.
Hope someone can point me in the right direction.
Sincerely,
Paul
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