slackware 13 xorg server multihead doesnt work with any PCI card as secondary
 

I know that this worked on slackware 12.2.
But on slackware 13 multihead fails because PCI resources are disabled so x server cant do detection and it fails.

It works if i set secondary card to primary then everything works ok.

Here are two examples how cards are disabled even when i start it.

01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: Device 00a1:0300 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel, IRQ 8
Memory at <unassigned> (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

Or

01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL
Flags: stepping, medium devsel, IRQ 10
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16M]
I/O ports at e000 [disabled] [size=256]
Memory at febff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2
Kernel modules: atyfb

Does anyone know what might be the problem ?
domen

src\xserver\hw\xfree86\common\xf86pciBus.c

static void
pciIo_MemAccessEnable(void* arg)
{
#if 0
#ifdef DEBUG
ErrorF("pciIo_MemAccessEnable: 0x%05lx\n", *(PCITAG *)arg);
#endif
pArg->ctrl |= SETBITS | PCI_CMD_MASTER_ENABLE;
pci_device_cfg_write_u32(pArg->dev, pArg->ctrl, PCI_CMD_STAT_REG);
#endif
}


So secondary cards stays disabled.:tisk:

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