you need to give them the same busID. Ati only added the seconday ID to later cards and only as a flag to windows drivers that it tha card has two ouputs. only the newer radeons have 2 ids. Most older cards including probably all 8500s only have one busID. even on the newer cards you only use the primary busID. PCI:1:0:0 is the AGP slot and that's what it will be for AGP card. you only have one card so you only need one ID. the driver itself takes care of setting up the card as a shared resource. You use the 'Screen 0' and 'Screen 1' flags in the config to differenciate between heads. The driver hase two code paths depending on whether you are the primary or the secondary head. Alex -------------------------------------- Hi, That is precisely the part that I am having trouble understanding. How could Xfree possible know that there are 2 heads if I have given it the same BusID, However all the XF86Config examples I have of radeon dual head cards ( 8500, 7500 , and 9000 ) all specify the same busID. When I do scanpci, or pciconf ( this is freebsd ) it only shows the one device under the agp slot ( ie. 01:xx:xx ) that busID being 01:00:0. I even tried using a live linux cd ( linux toolkit business card cd ) so I could use the command lspci, and still it appeared to give me the same results. The example 8500 config I got of the net was from a debian user, and from speaking to other FreeBSD users, they to have had difficulty with this. However I dont beleive it to be a FreeBSD issue, as this is handled by Xfree86. I am not a linux user, so my use of lspci to determine the busid for the second head could be wrong, any suggestions on the best way to use it for this cause? Thanks for the sugestions Any other suggestions appreciated Thanks David > David, > > I looked at your /var/log/XFree86.0.log and saw that only one head was > recognized ! > > Lines: > (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QL [Radeon 8500 LE] rev > 0, > > There should have been another line like > (--) PCI:*(1:4:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QL [Radeon 8500 LE] rev > 0, > > > The problem in your XFree config file is that you have defined two device > that are exactly the same even for the BusID. So how can XFree see the > difference. > > So try to find out why XFree only sees one head ? > > Regards, > > Marcel Stegehuis __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
