Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:15:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, FreeBSD hackers mailing list <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD Message-ID: <19981023121503.A28824@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199810222339.QAA09540@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>; from Jason Thorpe on Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 04:39:39PM -0700 References: <199810222339.QAA09540@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Thursday, 22 October 1998 at 16:39:39 -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:53:39 +0930 > Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: > >> I don't understand if you're intending to say "in some cases". It's >> certainly not true generally. You can put as many PCI display boards >> into a machine as will fit, and with the appropriate software you can >> use them all at the same time. I'm currently using two heads with XI >> Graphics server, but will migrate to XFree86 as soon as the facility >> is available (4.0). > > In my experience, as soon as the second one goes in, they both attempt > to put themselves in ISA VGA compatibility space, and the system refuses > to boot. > > I've tried this w/ N combinations of mainboards and PCI VGA devices. >From my dmesg: vga0: <Matrox MGA 2064W graphics accelerator> rev 0x01 int a irq 10 on pci0.10.0 vga1: <ATI Mach64-CT graphics accelerator> rev 0x09 on pci0.11.0 I didn't say every combination works, but I never had much difficulty with the boards. I even had a third board in at one stage, but the X server didn't recognize it. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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