(resend, gmail went html again). On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a box with a real graphics card (radeon) and an onboard > graphics card (mgag200). I want to use the radeon and ignore the > mgag200. For reasons of extreme firmware suckage, I have two choices: > > 1. Leave both devices enabled in BIOS and set the mgag200 device > primary. This causes efifb and later mgag200 to both point at the > mgag200. All of my text consoles end up on the mgag200. This is > unfortunate, especially because if, even if I set xorg to ignore the > mgag200 device, hitting ctrl-alt-f2 causes X to suspend itself and my > text console to show up on a device with no monitor attached. > > 2. Set the radeon device as primary in BIOS. System doesn't boot. get vendor to fix BIOS :-) > > I'd like to leave mgag200 primary but tell Linux to put all the text > consoles on the radeon device once it shows up. I could compile out > both efifb and mgag200, but that seems like a waste. Is there any way > to do this with a command-line parameter? I tried fbcon=map:1, and I > get no fbcon at all. the mapping stuff should work, alternative is to write some code to call the fbcon event, FB_EVENT_REMAP_ALL_CONSOLE, which is what the GPU switcher code uses to remap fbcon between switchable GPU systems. Dave. -- 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
