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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message -- Adam Serediuk vipw@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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