From the dmesg and fbset output i can see, that my aticard is in textmode 80x30 and running at 640x480 real and 640x6528 virtual, i will append all info to the end of the email, just incase, somebody finds a "tweakable"
hi all, I want to use two vga-cards in my system, an ati and a matrox, with the ati being my primary card. i want to use the Framebuffer-X-server on the matrox to have, with my ati, 2 graphical surfaces... So far the projekt, here are the results: upon bootup, i get the message that both my cards have been assigned to frmaebuffers fb0(ati) and fb1(matrox). All boot output, with the little tux in the corner appears on the ati-screen. On the matroxscreen i get some blue, red, and green dots scattered in somesort of a pattern. parameter. My matroxcard runs at the same res, only having half the virtual y-res. So far so good. I can use the fbset to change reslutions on both cards, but ... see below I can start my primary X on the ATI as usual, and can then , as root, issue: export FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1 xinit -- /var/X11R6/bin/XFb :1 (XFb i created as a link to XF86_FBDev) and then i get kde on the matrox card, paralell to my X on the ATI-card. OK, here come my questions: On bootup: Is the vgatextmode question connected to the fb's? Should i set, in lilo.conf, vga=normal to not "interfere" with the fbs? Both atyfb and matroxfb are not modules, they are IN the kernel... ist that the way to go? I cant change the default mode for the atifb, the how-to shows 2 different syntaxes: video=atyfb:1024x768 OR video=atyfb:mode:1024x768...both dont work How could i pass parameters to the second fb using the video=...?? I would like to redistribute my VT as follows: fb0(ati): F1,F2,F3 and X on F7 fb1(matrox): F4,F5,F6 and X on F8 After bootup: I can have 2 Xscreens now, but i cant figure out, how to make them talk to each other? when i do: fbtv -d /dev/fb0 i get a good (moving) tvpicture in my shell, but fbtv -d /dev/fb1 will only generate a still image on my matroxscreen, that only moves, when i press keys, but then i have to permanently hit a key to get a choppy picture. what can i do about it? Does the tvcard being on same interupt as ATI have something to do with it? ok, i will post more questions as they arise, thanks already for your attention and help. Below is the outputs from the fb-commands. If somebody is interested, i can send a complete step by step... thanks, Alex ---bash-2.03# dmesg atyfb: 3D RAGE PRO (BGA, AGP) [0x4742 rev 0x7c] 4M SGRAM, 14.31818 MHz XTAL, 230 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI matroxfb: Matrox Millennium (PCI) detected matroxfb: MTRR's turned on matroxfb: 640x480x8bpp (virtual: 640x3276) matroxfb: framebuffer at 0x41800000, mapped to 0xc7008000, size 2097152 fb1: MATROX VGA frame buffer device fb1: initializing hardware ---bash-2.03# fbset -i -fb /dev/fb0 mode "640x480-60" # D: 25.172 MHz, H: 31.466 kHz, V: 59.934 Hz geometry 640 480 640 6528 8 timings 39726 48 16 33 10 96 2 accel true rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0 endmode Frame buffer device information: Name : ATY Mach64 Address : 0x40000000 Size : 4190208 Type : PACKED PIXELS Visual : PSEUDOCOLOR XPanStep : 8 YPanStep : 1 YWrapStep : 0 LineLength : 640 MMIO Address: 0x407ff800 MMIO Size : 2048 Accelerator : ATI Mach64GT ---bash-2.03# fbset -i -fb /dev/fb1 mode "640x480-60" # D: 25.200 MHz, H: 31.500 kHz, V: 59.999 Hz geometry 640 480 640 3276 8 timings 39683 48 16 33 10 96 2 accel true rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0 endmode Frame buffer device information: Name : MATROX Address : 0x41800000 Size : 2097152 Type : PACKED PIXELS Visual : PSEUDOCOLOR XPanStep : 8 YPanStep : 1 YWrapStep : 0 LineLength : 640 MMIO Address: 0x41100000 MMIO Size : 16384 Accelerator : Matrox MGA2064W (Millennium) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/