Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:23:25 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Xorg Redux Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008231422390.88893@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20100823211530.4ca16f22.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4C72977B.9060104@comcast.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008231018080.88061@wonkity.com> <4C72B37D.2020504@comcast.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008231306540.88832@wonkity.com> <20100823211530.4ca16f22.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:08:24 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >> Interesting, two device sections. Some notebooks actually do have two >> video cards, although the R51 might not and this might just be >> misdetected. > > Doesn't have to be - maybe it's one VGA and one DVI output? It's also > possible that a DVI output can be controlled via the chipset used, > but isn't present as an actual connector. > > My good (really!) old ATI Radeon 9200 shows up similarly: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "ati" > VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" > BoardName "Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000]" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > Screen 0 > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Card1" > Driver "ati" > VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" > BoardName "Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] (Secondary)" > BusID "PCI:1:0:1" > Screen 1 > EndSection > > Note the different BusID. A similar mentioning should happen in > /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Maybe it's the older cards. ISTR seeing that before, but it's been a long time.
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