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[PATCH] Note about the use of secondary cards with DRI

Added by juanfra684 about 13 years ago. Updated about 13 years ago.

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share/man/man4/drm.4 | 6 ++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/share/man/man4/drm.4 b/share/man/man4/drm.4
index 3c38f08..688e388 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/drm.4
++ b/share/man/man4/drm.4
@ -102,6 +102,12 @ EndSection
.Ed
.El
.Pp
+If you have two graphic cards (i.e.: a on-board graphics and other AGP/PCI/PCIe
+card) and you would like use the secondary device with DRI, you will need make
+a symbolic link from /dev/dri/card1 to /dev/dri/card0 always. This is a old bug
+of Xorg, the DRI module only reads the first device.
.El
+.Pp
Debugging output can be enabled and disabled by setting the
.Xr sysctl 8
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man_drm.patch (1.13 KB) man_drm.patch		juanfra684, 11/08/2011 02:07 AM
0001-Fixed-a-little-error-in-the-man-page-of-drm.patch (753 Bytes) 0001-Fixed-a-little-error-in-the-man-page-of-drm.patch		juanfra684, 11/08/2011 02:21 AM