5 Apr
2000
5 Apr
'00
8:36 a.m.
By virtue of the fact that two cards cannot share a
single VGA region,
you can only init a single card. So that makes perfect sense. The
standard BIOS reaction to multiple video cards is to -not- execute the
BIOS init sequence for secondary/tertiary cards, but to instead disable
their MMIO and PIO decoding altogether. This is why XFree86 must map
and execute the video BIOS for a secondary card, before it can be used
as a secondary head.
I am curious: Does XFree86 drop _back_ into 16-bit mode to initialize
the second video BIOS?
- James
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