Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:04:52 +0100 | From | Marek Szuba <> | Subject | mdacon problem |
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Hello,
Recently I have attempted to, in addition to my Matrox framebuffer console, enable a second head text console using mdacon driver; unfortunately I have been able neither to get it working nor to find any information on this in the docs or on the net.
First of all, some technical data - the kernel I use at present is 2.6.7 (following problems with 2.6.9 which I shall describe in a separate post) and the second-head graphics card is an old PCI SVGA (which I believe might be the reason why it doesn't work; then again, AFAIK it is compatible with the MDA mode).
What happened: 1. The second card got installed in a free PCI slot and the system got booted. The primary graphics card works as usual, the monitor connected to the secondary one remains in power-saving mode.
2. Having compiled the appropriate kernel module and loaded it with "modprobe mdacon mda_first_vc=13 mda_last_vc=24", the following got sent to syslog: Nov 14 00:24:23 host kernel: mdacon: MDA with 8K of memory detected.
Nov 14 00:24:23 host kernel: Console: switching consoles 13-24 to MDA-2
3. Nothing else happened: the primary display works as usual and the secondary monitor remains in off mode.
I have also tried loading the module with no options, obtaining "Console: switching consoles 1-16 to MDA-2 80x25" but rendering the text console unusable (probably due to fbcon).
Could you shed any light on the issue? If you need any more information, please don't hesitate to ask.
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