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| Captain Dondo 2005-09-26, 5:54 pm |
| Anyone know the hardware/software requriements for dual frame buffers?
I am trying to set up a dual head framebuffer, but the HOWTO seems to
assume that the second framebuffer is detected automagically. On my
system - debian sarge - only the first framebuffer (/dev/fb0) appears.
Creating the second framebuffer (/dev/fb1 at 29/32) doesn't help.
My sencod card is a cheapo S3 Virge, which I'm guessing won't do
framebuffer at all....
So, what do I need? dual Matrox G400? G550?
Thanks...
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| Bill Marcum 2005-09-26, 5:54 pm |
| On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:12:40 -0700, Captain Dondo
<yan@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com> wrote:
> Anyone know the hardware/software requriements for dual frame buffers?
>
> I am trying to set up a dual head framebuffer, but the HOWTO seems to
> assume that the second framebuffer is detected automagically. On my
> system - debian sarge - only the first framebuffer (/dev/fb0) appears.
> Creating the second framebuffer (/dev/fb1 at 29/32) doesn't help.
>
> My sencod card is a cheapo S3 Virge, which I'm guessing won't do
> framebuffer at all....
>
> So, what do I need? dual Matrox G400? G550?
>
Maybe you need to modprobe a framebuffer driver for your card.
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