Ati "FireMV 2400" vs. BiosLocation

[Dave Airlie]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Csillag Kristof
<csillag.kristof at united-consult.hu> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to get an Ati FireMV 2400 PCI card to work.
>
> This is a quad-head device, made from two almost-independent
> video cards, glued together with some BIOS hack.
>
>   * * *
>
> According to the post at
>
>    http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-March/022328.html
>
> , the card used to work fine, but one had to use the "BiosLocation" option
> in xorg.conf to configure it properly.
>
> However, according to the post at
>
>    http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-commit/2007-July/011935.html
>
> , this option was later removed (without a trivial replacement),
> because it was considered dangerous. (wtf?)
>
> (There is an option called BiosBase,
> but it does not seem to do the same thing.)
>
> How am I supposed to get this card to work now?

It works for me on a kernel modesetting supported system,
don't think it'll work before KMS or multi-card vga arbiter work.

Dave.

>
> Thank you for your help:
>
>   Kristof Csillag
>
>
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