Thanks for your answer.

> Unfortunately DirectFB doesn't have proper multi-head support so using 
> both cards from the same DirectFB session is not possible. Maybe you can 
> use them from two DirectFB sessions, but I'm not sure if that's what you 
> want.

But if not using them in parallel, shouldn't I be able to choose the device 
with the "fbdev=XXXX" option in directfbrc ? It seems to me that just the last 
one is working, in my case the PCI card.
Could you give me a hint on how to generate different config files (directfbrc) 
for different sessions.

Regards,
Stefan Doermann 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Ville Syrjälä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Gesendet: 24.01.07 11:00:21
> An: Stefan Dörmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: [directfb-users] Using an AGP and a PCI matrox in parallel


> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 10:34:44AM +0100, Stefan Dörmann wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I am playing around with Directfb since a few weeks now. Mainly I am using 
> > it together with vdr + softdevice but obviously it offers some fantastic 
> > oportunities.
> > Anyway I couldn't find any information about the following :
> > 
> > 1) I am using an G400 AGP with RGB cable (directfb output) and got now 
> > an additional G450 PCI. Originally I thought I could run the vdr 
> > plugin "graphtft" on second head of the PCI card, but learned that the 
> > second 
> > head FB device this is not accessible as the matroxfb_crct2 module 
> > shouldn't be loaded together with dfb. Alright, then I thought I could 
> > also use dfb for this purpose. Unfortunately it seems to be impossible 
> > to use the second head of both cards in parallel.  When Multihead 
> > support is enabled within in the kernel  the second head of the PCI 
> > card can be used (the first of this device is also working fine) but the TV 
> > out on the G400 is only showing red stripes. Generally, should it be 
> > possible to have different applications running on both second heads 
> > of these different devices ?
> 
> Unfortunately DirectFB doesn't have proper multi-head support so using 
> both cards from the same DirectFB session is not possible. Maybe you can 
> use them from two DirectFB sessions, but I'm not sure if that's what you 
> want.
> 
> > 2) A while ago I was trying to get the DirectFBGL thing to work. I 
> > found out that the old embedded Mesa package doesn't like the modified 
> > DRM drivers from kernel >2.6.11. Is there are any workaround ?
> 
> Nothing that would give hw accelerated OpenGL. If sw rendering is enough 
> you could grab a recent version of Mesa and build the directfb target. 
> I've not tried it myself but AFAIK it should work.
> 
> -- 
> Ville Syrjälä
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> http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/
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