Hi, Michel,

We tried xfree86 4.2.0. In 4.2, doFramebufferMode has
been set to TRUE. But no image displays on AGP card.
Is there any other place where X disables the AGP
card(primary card) that X doesn't use?

It would appear that somewhere in the Xserver code
the PCI bus (and AGP) is being scanned for graphics
cards (by device class?). Can we modify that code
so that the AGP card will not be detected or so
that the server behaves as though there is no AGP
card present in the machine? If so, do you know
where we should look in the code to do such a
modification? 


Thanks in advance,

jing


--- Michel D�nzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>The X server disables graphics chips it doesn't use
>because they can cause problems otherwise. 

> Look at
> xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Bus.c, it
> might be enough to hardcode doFramebufferMode to
> TRUE.


>The initial question is as follows:

>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?

>jing

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