MGA Millinium / Intel 815 - latest development version

[Jim Cornette]

As stated earlier, I am now attempting to use an Intel 815 Internal card 
as primary and the Matrox Millinium G200 as PCI secondary. With the last 
official releases, the MGA is not functional (blank screen) and 
xorg.conf must be edited to increase resolution.

With the latest development installation (Fedora-devel) there is some 
different and more usable reactions from this combination of cards. The 
xorg.conf was setup when the only video card installed was the Intel 815 
internal. Now with the MGA PCI video card installed, I am getting a 
different reaction with the cards. Now, the Intel, set as primary goes 
through POST, through grub loading, then partway through development 
boot, the terminal switches from displaying text on the Intel to picking 
up action on the MGA. After initializing of X, the Intel kicks in and 
displays the GUI. The Matrox is dormant until I ctl-alt-Fn into a 
terminal, then the terminal is active on the MGA and the Intel displays 
where the display switched over from the Intel video to the Matrox card.

Reading the list, I recall conversations referring to the virtual 
terminals getting cues from the kernel and the GUI getting accessed 
through userspace methods. Is this correct, or were the references to 
kernel control of the virtual terminals and xorg control of the GUI 
misinterpreted? The symptoms that I see now seem to point to this being 
somewhat on track.

How would I go about getting the virtual terminals and GUI in sync? I 
did not try to adjust for dual head yet on the development release 
because of previous problems with reduced resolution for the Intel. I 
assume the settings are single head since I did not attempt to configure 
dual head operation yet. (In development)

Thanks,

Jim

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