Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 04:08:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 04:08:41 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([195.39.74.230]:35031 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 04:08:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:08:38 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Helge Hafting Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux as a minicomputer ? Message-ID: <20020412100838.A17963@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020411154601.GY17962@antefacto.com> <20020411164331.GR612@gallifrey> <20020411184923.A15238@ucw.cz> <1018544869.962.22.camel@psuedomode> <20020411191249.A15435@ucw.cz> <3CB69032.D332FA51@aitel.hist.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:43:46AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > 2) If you hack out the VT switching out of X, then still each X server > > will disable all PCI resources for other video cards, because it > > believes it owns the system. This will freeze all other active X > > servers. > > Do X somehow _depend_ on disabling other cards or is this > another thing that could be #ifdefed out? > Assuming, of course that the resources don't > overlap in any unhealthy way. They do. Almost always, there is the legacy VGA i/o space, which is needed to initialize the secondary card(s) by BIOS ran in vm86 space. After #ifdefing the disabling out, the Xservers crashed reproducibly. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/