Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Q: two framebuffers on i386 --- how can I do it? | Date | Fri, 06 Nov 1998 23:09:39 +0000 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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paul@pbunyk.physics.sunysb.edu said: > What should I do to initialize the SECOND framebuffer? I want it to > run XF86FB on the second card.
You can't initialise the second framebuffer with the standard kernel drivers. What you need to do is obtain 'matroxfb', which is a driver for the Matrox cards (I believe it supports both the cards in your machine). IIRC, it claims to support multi-head. Suck it and see.
ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/00README-Matrox
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