On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Csillag Kristof <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am trying to get an Ati FireMV 2400 PCI card to work. > > This is a quad-head device, made from two almost-independent > video cards, glued together with some BIOS hack. > > * * * > > According to the post at > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-March/022328.html > > , the card used to work fine, but one had to use the "BiosLocation" option > in xorg.conf to configure it properly. > > However, according to the post at > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-commit/2007-July/011935.html > > , this option was later removed (without a trivial replacement), > because it was considered dangerous. (wtf?) > > (There is an option called BiosBase, > but it does not seem to do the same thing.) > > How am I supposed to get this card to work now?
It works for me on a kernel modesetting supported system, don't think it'll work before KMS or multi-card vga arbiter work. Dave. > > Thank you for your help: > > Kristof Csillag > > > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
