On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Super Biscuit <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd like for it to be noted that the cards aren't working properly. The Open > Firmware"BIOS" path is incomplete. This has been noted on the freebsd-x11 and > xorg mailing lists along with the freebsd ppc mailing list. > I have tried all options offered to me with none working. > please let me knw which individuals that I need to file a bug report- or > multiple bug reports to- on these mailing lists. > Thank you.
OF needs to init both cards for them to be usable by X. For now you'll probably only have luck with whichever card OF initialized. Alex > > --- On Fri, 10/8/10, Peter Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Peter Jeremy <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Xorg configuration fails on G4 Powermac > To: "Super Biscuit" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Friday, October 8, 2010, 2:07 AM > > On 2010-Oct-07 06:03:10 -0700, Super Biscuit <[email protected]> wrote: > >I've tried the xorg.conf.new with both the options you suggested and Denise > >suggested. Same results: no detection for mga g400/450, blank screen for > >radeon. > >I'm curious as to whether or not I need to add the horiz and vert values to > >the monitor section. > > Can I suggest adding a "Virtual 1280 1024" (sized appropriately) to > each 'SubSection "Display"' of each 'Section "Screen"'. I ran into > some wierd problems with multiple screens and found that the virtual > size isn't correctly initialised unless it's explicitly specified. > > That said, I suspect that the underlying problem is: > >(WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support > > ISTR, there is no longer any support for multiple video cards in > FreeBSD - I believe Xorg7.4 relies on external functionality that > FreeBSD doesn't have. Can you try removing one of the > screen/device/monitor sections and see if it works? > > -- > Peter Jeremy > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
