Re: Matroxfb dualhead dies

From: Petr Vandrovec (VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 15:55:42 EST


On 6 Mar 00 at 17:48, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On my G400, the Maven client is detected on both the 'ddc1' and 'maven' i2c
> busses.
> Because of the horribly ugly pointer arithmetic which maven_init_client does to
> get back to the primary head of the G400, this causes the driver to oops and
> die.
Thanks, applied. Are you sure that you do not have some wire on the G400,
which should not be there? Or what you have connected to secondary monitor
output?
> The following patch fixes this problem for me. Now all I need to do is work
> out how to attach a text console to /dev/fb1 :)
con2fb... or boot with video=map:0101010101 (but do not switch to vc 2,4,6,8
before you load another framebuffer, if you compiled it as module).
                                        Best regards,
                                                Petr Vandrovec
                                                vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
                                                

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