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Date:      Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:45:19 -0700
From:      Adam Serediuk <vipw@home.com>
To:        Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NVidia & VA closed source OpenGL
Message-ID:  <38878FFF.DA4EB542@home.com>
References:  <200001201619.KAA24706@prg01.hstn.tensor.pgs.com> <38873686.C097B77B@cs.strath.ac.uk> <388788A6.C728472F@home.com> <006d01bf6396$f3f92960$0200000a@bfg>

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Cool, I'll wait out then.




Roger Hardiman wrote:
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> > Will two V3 PCI's work in a dual-head setup?
> 
> Yes and No.
> 
> They will work, but only when someone (I guess that means
> me) get the "Int 10" code for FreeBSD added to XFree86.
> 
> > I tried doing dual-head with my TNT2U and a S3 ViRGE/DX, no
> > soup.
> 
> What happens is this.
> The PC Bios initialises the first video card.
> But it does not initialise the other video cards.
> 
> The Voodoo3 and the Virge drivers someone to call the BIOSs on the
> secondary video cards to initialise them.
> This is done with an Int10 BIOS call.
> 
> So, XFree tries to call the Int10 BIOS initialisation routines on the
> video cards. On Linux this works. On FreeBSD this does not work
> right now.
> 
> Once I've got the FreeBSD Int10 code written, things will work
> as expected.
> 
> Roger
> 
> p.s. I've just bought 2 PCI Voodoo3 2000 cards, so I'm keen to get this
> working ASAP.
> 
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