Does Photon dual video cards?

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My devel machine at home has two older Matrox cards - Millenium II &
Millenium. I can run these fine in Windows & X11. I installed the
latest RTP ISO this weekend and upon booting it seems to lock itself up
when trying to detect my video cards. I can’t remember the output right
now, but I was wondering if Photon even supports dual video card
systems?

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James Moger
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Software Engineer
Transonic Systems, Inc.
{C/C++} {Java} {Smalltalk}
Cornell Engineering '98
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For info on dual monitors please chech this url out,
http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?9490


Thanks
Charles

Previously, James Moger wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:

My devel machine at home has two older Matrox cards - Millenium II &
Millenium. I can run these fine in Windows & X11. I installed the
latest RTP ISO this weekend and upon booting it seems to lock itself up
when trying to detect my video cards. I can’t remember the output right
now, but I was wondering if Photon even supports dual video card
systems?

–
James Moger
===---------------------===
Software Engineer
Transonic Systems, Inc.
{C/C++} {Java} {Smalltalk}
Cornell Engineering '98
===---------------------===

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“Charles Lawrence” <clawrence@qnx.com> wrote in message
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For info on dual monitors please chech this url out,
http://qdn.qnx.com/support/bok/solution.qnx?9490

Charles, this article refers to Photon 1.xx. Somewhere in the journey to

Photon 2.0 dual video dropped out…unless one of the two cards is a Voodoo
or Banshee card! Then a similar cut and paste works on
/etc/system/graphics.modes, AFAIR. Just don’t try to use the graphics config
program to change anything; it only thinks of one card.
I have heard this will be back for Photon 2.1, I just don’t know when.

Phil Olynyk

Thanks
Charles

Previously, James Moger wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:
My devel machine at home has two older Matrox cards - Millenium II &
Millenium. I can run these fine in Windows & X11. I installed the
latest RTP ISO this weekend and upon booting it seems to lock itself up
when trying to detect my video cards. I can’t remember the output right
now, but I was wondering if Photon even supports dual video card
systems?

–
James Moger
===---------------------===
Software Engineer
Transonic Systems, Inc.
{C/C++} {Java} {Smalltalk}
Cornell Engineering '98
===---------------------===
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Phil Olynyk <phil.olynyk@eti-gaming.com> wrote:

Somewhere in the journey to
Photon 2.0 dual video dropped out…unless one of the two cards is a Voodoo
or Banshee card!

This implies that all Photon 1.1x drivers supported dual video card
operation, and that is definitely not true.

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So the official word from QNX is that I can’t do dual matrox millenium
video cards with the most recent release of RTP?

–
James Moger
===---------------------===
Software Engineer
Transonic Systems, Inc.
{C/C++} {Java} {Smalltalk}
Cornell Engineering '98
===---------------------===

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James Moger <jamesm@transonic.com> wrote:

So the official word from QNX is that I can’t do dual matrox millenium
video cards with the most recent release of RTP?

Yes.

Your machine should not be locking up though.

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Sounds like a trapper issue. If you have dumper running, do you
find anything in /var/dumps after the lockup?


pete@qnx.com wrote:

James Moger <> jamesm@transonic.com> > wrote:
So the official word from QNX is that I can’t do dual matrox millenium
video cards with the most recent release of RTP?

Yes.

Your machine should not be locking up though.

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It locks during the boot process while doing “crttrap”. It executes
crttrap 4 times (it displays 1 hex identifier for each matrox card and
then displays 1 vesa identifier for each card) and freezes after the
last one so I never get to a prompt to check /var/dumps. I’ll take note
of the exact messages and post again on Monday.

–
James Moger
===---------------------===
Software Engineer
Transonic Systems, Inc.
{C/C++} {Java} {Smalltalk}
Cornell Engineering '98
===---------------------===