Re: multiple coexisting vga devices

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:40:37AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:57:33AM -0600, Brook Milligan wrote:
> > I have a netbsd/amd64 machine with several vga cards (e.g., 2x Nvidia
> > GeForce 7900 GTX (2 ports each), 1x Matrix G200 (4 ports)).  See the
> > dmesg output below.  I am trying to get these all to work with X.
> > Several issues arise.
> > 
> > First, I cannot seem to get the kernel to install different vga
> > devices for the cards.  Is it possible to have multiple vga devices?
> 
> I've never heard of or seen such a thing.  The vga(4) driver
> is mostly (totally?) for the console anyway.

And it uses the legacy vga ports. As these are at fixed addresses, you
can't have more than one true VGA device in one system

When you have multiple graphic cards, only one of them is in legacy VGA
mode.

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Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
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