Subject: Re: Two vga drivers
To: Anthony Mallet <anthony.mallet@useless-ficus.net>
From: Quentin Garnier <netbsd@quatriemek.com>
List: tech-x11
Date: 03/09/2003 18:17:25
Le Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:57:58 +0100
Anthony Mallet a écrit :
> Perry E. Metzger writes:
[...]
> | I imagine that you may think you need the vga driver to run X on two
> | heads, but in fact you do not -- XFree effectively supplies its own
> | drivers which speak to the card via /dev/mem.
> 
> Ok, I was not sure about that :)
> 
> But I just can't find how to launch two separate X servers. The second
> one insists on using a VT on the first display (which has the console

This is normal, it needs a VT to get the keyboard and the mouse, just like
the first server.

> attached), and nothing gets displayed on the second display (even not a
> sync signal).

Is there anything relevant in XFree86's log ?

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