On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 11:43 -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:39:01 +0000 > > > Secondly, is Linux fully capable of handling different graphic cards > > simultaneously? For example, plug in a pair of monitors and have > > consoles on both with disparate graphic cards i.e. XVR-500 and S3ViRGE > > etc? > > Technically I don't think it can do it currently. Maybe just for > kernel message logging, but not for actual login consoles. > > One TTY device is marked as the "console" and that's where all > tty[0-9]+ devices get instantiated upon. Hmm, maybe it would be nice to introduce that capability. How doable would it be? I understand the BKL is going away, perhaps it would now be easier to introduce such a facility? I've just started digging into the innards of the s3fb driver, my first attempt provoked this, simply by commenting out the check to see if it's not the primary device and exits with -ENODEV: Jan 3 20:16:29 sodium kernel: ERROR(1): Cheetah error trap taken afsr[0030100000000000] afar[00000000000003d0] TL1(0) Jan 3 20:16:29 sodium kernel: ERROR(1): TPC[105918d8] TNPC[105918dc] O7[10591884] TSTATE[4411001606] Jan 3 20:16:29 sodium kernel: ERROR(1): TPC<s3_pci_probe+0x194/0x63c [s3fb]> Jan 3 20:16:29 sodium kernel: ERROR(1): M_SYND(0), E_SYND(0), Multiple Errors, Privileged Jan 3 20:16:29 sodium kernel: ERROR(1): Highest priority error (0000100000000000) "Unmapped error from system bus" Jan 3 20:16:29 sodium kernel: ERROR(1): D-cache idx[0] tag[0000000000000000] utag[0000000000000000] stag[0000000000000000] Jan 3 20:16:29 sodium kernel: ERROR(1): D-cache data0[0000000000000000] data1[0000000000000000] data2[0000000000000000] data3[0000000000000000] Jan 3 20:16:29 sodium kernel: ERROR(1): I-cache idx[0] tag[0000000000000000] utag[0000000000000000] stag[0000000000000000] u[0000000000000000] l[0000000000000000] Jan 3 20:16:29 sodium kernel: ERROR(1): I-cache INSN0[0000000000000000] INSN1[0000000000000000] INSN2[0000000000000000] INSN3[0000000000000000] Jan 3 20:16:29 sodium kernel: ERROR(1): I-cache INSN4[0000000000000000] INSN5[0000000000000000] INSN6[0000000000000000] INSN7[0000000000000000] Jan 3 20:16:29 sodium kernel: ERROR(1): E-cache idx[3c0] tag[000000000b040000] Jan 3 20:16:29 sodium kernel: ERROR(1): E-cache data0[000c5aa000000011] data1[000f43d800000040] data2[0000000000000109] data3[0000000000000000] Jan 3 20:16:29 sodium kernel: Kernel panic - not syncing: Irrecoverable deferred error trap. Heh. ;) -- Tactical Nuclear Kittens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
