[Nouveau] 2 cards in, but work only separately

[Marcin Slusarz]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 08:59:28AM +0000, Kārlis Repsons wrote:
> On Sunday 01 August 2010 08:41:04 Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> > On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:08:23 +0000
> > 
> > Kārlis Repsons <k at 11.lv> wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > > my thanks to developers of nouveau first: I wonder how you put it
> > > together this far, where there's quite enough to appreciate!
> > > 
> > > This question I have: strangely I can get each of 2 cards to work
> > > separately for a dualseat PC by toggling on/off fbcon=map: kernel
> > > option (compiled with CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY)
> > > -- by doing so I can have each card initialized and start it's
> > > Xorg, all welll, but can't have both cards initialized (and thus
> > > used) -- why?
> > > 
> > > In very short, this is what my dmesg says:
> > > [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> > > nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> > > [drm] Initialized nouveau 0.0.16 20090420 for 0000:01:00.0 on
> > > minor 0 nouveau 0000:04:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> > > nouveau 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> > > nouveau 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
> > > nouveau: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -12
> > 
> > Is this really a continuous section of the kernel log, no
> > lines removed from between?
> No, I removed! See all in attach!
> 
> > What versions of the Nouveau components and the kernel you have?
> > What cards do you have?
> Linux 2.6.34-gentoo-r2 (no DRM or nouveau driver in);
> 
> nouveau-drm 20100520 from portage (gives me ch7006.ko drm_kms_helper.ko drm.ko 
> nouveau.ko ttm.ko);
> 
> GeForce 7300GS, GeForce 6200LE!

These are NV40's (see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames) and multicard
(http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix) on NV40's works since 2010.05.25.
Just upgrade.

Marcin