Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Mar 1998 07:37:43 +0100 (CET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: GGI, EGCS/PGCC, Kernel source (amusing thread :) |
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On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, teunis wrote: > - I run multiple videocards. fbcons does _NOT_ support multiple > PCI adapters. At least ones that don't initialize themselves.
No? The driver for ATI video boards does initialize the board itself. Besides, on decent machines the firmware (e.g. Open Firmware) knows how to initialize the board in a CPU-independent manner ;-)
OK, atyfb doesn't support multiple ATI boards yet, but that's a question of hours...
Oh yeah, I'm _not_ saying that everyone should be using fbcon. For plain PCs, vgacon is fine. We just need the full abstract console code to be in the kernel for machines that always boot with a graphical screen, not text mode. So, on machines without decent firmware, you'll be stuck with vgacon and VGA text mode, and XFree86 :-)
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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