You might try XFree86 3.9.17 (development snapshot, it mostly works). This
supports multi-head configurations and will softboot cards as necessary.
I've got a working system with a Riva TNT AGP card and a Riva 128 PCI
card.
-- brion vibber (brion@pobox.com)
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Robin Smidsrød wrote:
> I have recently installed a second gfx-card in my computer, and hooked up a
> monitor to it. The gfx-card is a PCI-card. My primary card is an AGP-card,
> and is initialized by the BIOS (Init display first: AGP).
>
> In Windows 98 everything works ok and I have a dual-screen setup. I know the
> same kind of setup isn't quite possible with XFree, but I know I should at
> least be able to start an X-server on the card. (Secondary display).
>
> As you can see from this output of lspci -v, the PCI-card is disabled. How
> can I enable it, and what are the essentials of the XF86Config-file?
>
> I've attached my current XF86Config. The problem with it, is that the SVGA
> driver tries to init the secondary display on the ATI-card (which is wrong,
> it should pick the ET6000).
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: Tseng Labs Inc ET6000 (rev 60)
> Flags: slow devsel, IRQ 11
> Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
> I/O ports at ec00 [disabled]
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 215GB [Mach64 GB] (rev 5c)
> Subsystem: Unknown device 1002:0062
> Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
> Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> I/O ports at d000
> Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> Capabilities: <available only to root>
>
>
>
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