From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jan 20 14:45:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ab.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com [24.64.2.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B015015347 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:45:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vipw@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.66.193.63]) by mail.rdc1.ab.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <20000120224514.ZKVQ2666.mail.rdc1.ab.home.com@home.com>; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:45:14 -0800 Message-ID: <38878FFF.DA4EB542@home.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:45:19 -0700 From: Adam Serediuk Organization: A&B UNIX Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roger Hardiman , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NVidia & VA closed source OpenGL References: <200001201619.KAA24706@prg01.hstn.tensor.pgs.com> <38873686.C097B77B@cs.strath.ac.uk> <388788A6.C728472F@home.com> <006d01bf6396$f3f92960$0200000a@bfg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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