> > > In other words, all the work involving the Video card is already done. > > > > Now you are wrong. :) > > > > The X server disables video devices it doesn't use. > > DOH! That seems like a really dumb Idea. Is it easy to make it not disable > the other cards? Would that gum up other stuff?
I may be wrong, but I think it's not really so dumb when there is only one X server: the cards share the I/O address space, so unless you disable all but the one that you're communicating with at the moment, you're in trouble. But that also means that simply removing this device disabling doesn't solve the problem (generally). That's what the already mentioned patch (you know, the one from Brazil) does, besides adding USB keyboard support, etc. It does work for some cards and not for others; also, even for the nVidia's that work (with nVidia's closed source drivers), video mode changes hang the machine. So, as I already said, I think some kind of serialization of video device accesses is needed between the multiple X servers. Vaclav Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] IDAS, s.r.o. http://www.idas.cz _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
