On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 20:37, Jing Xu wrote: > > I have two graphic cards in my box, one is ATI Rage > XL(PCI) and one is ATI Radeon VE QY(AGP). I would like > to control the AGP card from a kernel module we have > written (which displays on a projector) and I would > like to let X control the PCI card (which displays on > a flat panel monitor). While in console mode the > kernel module correctly displays images using the > AGP card and the message "ATI Rage SDRAM BIOS P/N > 113-72307-100 4.330" is displayed using the PCI card. > We used the vesafb driver to configure the AGP > card (primary card according to BIOS) to the desired > mode of 1024x768. > > The problem begins when we use startx. The PCI > controlled monitor starts X correctly but our > kernel module no longer has control of our AGP card > (no image displays on projector). > > Does any know why X seems to be taking our control > of the AGP card away?
The X server disables graphics chips it doesn't use because they can cause problems otherwise. That should be relatively easy to hack around though if you're confident it should work with your configuration. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
