Re: Q: two framebuffers on i386 --- how can I do it?

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Fri, 06 Nov 1998 23:09:39 +0000

paul@pbunyk.physics.sunysb.edu said:
> What should I do to initialize the SECOND framebuffer? I want it to
> run XF86FB on the second card.

You can't initialise the second framebuffer with the standard kernel drivers.
What you need to do is obtain 'matroxfb', which is a driver for the Matrox
cards (I believe it supports both the cards in your machine). IIRC, it claims
to support multi-head. Suck it and see.

ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/00README-Matrox

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