From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 20:23:30 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0669D10656AB for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:23:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E2A8FC08 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:23:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7NKNPBb089123; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:23:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id o7NKNPSo089120; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:23:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:23:25 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Polytropon In-Reply-To: <20100823211530.4ca16f22.freebsd@edvax.de> Message-ID: References: <4C72977B.9060104@comcast.net> <4C72B37D.2020504@comcast.net> <20100823211530.4ca16f22.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:23:26 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: Xorg Redux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:23:30 -0000 On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:08:24 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block 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.