Want to use Framebuffer on 2nd nVidia graphics card

[shanz1999]

Hello, I have two graphics cards. My primary card is an Nvidia GeForce2 MX/MX400 and my new card is an Nvidia GeForce FX5200 (with VGA, DVI & TVOUT ports). I use the primary card on an LCD monitor. I want to use the GeForce FX5200 as a framebuffer on an old crt monitor.

I want to boot up on my primary monitor and develop Framebuffer applications for my second monitor. I don't necessarily want to run X on the second monitor, just interface directly with the low-level /dev/fb1.

I know how to run menuconfig, rebuild and reboot a custom kernel. I need to know how to configure my kernel and how to get something displayed on my second monitor.

I have downloaded 'ezfb' and am hoping to prove my kernel setup with that.
Do I need any Nvidia drivers or do I rely on vesafb or vesa-tng?
Here is some info on my setup :-

lspci -t
-[00]-+-00.0

+-01.0-[01]----00.0

...

+-1e.0-[02]--+-00.0

+-01.0

+-01.1

\-02.0

lspci | grep -i vga
0000:01:00.0 VGA Compatible Controller:nVidia Corp NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)
0000:02:02.0 VGA Compatible Controller:nVidia Corp NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (reva1)

ls -als /dev/fb*
0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 2006-11-03 12:00 /dev/fb0
0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 1 2006-11-03 12:00 /dev/fb1

fbset -i -fb /dev/fb0

mode "640x480-60"
#D:25.176 MHz, H:31.469 kHz, V:59.942 Hz
geometry 640 400 640 32767 8
timings 39721 40 24 32 11 96 2
accel true
rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0
endmode

Frame buffer device information
Name NV11
Address 0xc000 0000
Size 67108864
Type PACKED PIXELS
Visual PSEUDOCOLOR
XPanStep 8
YPanStep 1
YWrapStep 0
LineLength 0
MMIO Address 0xfb000000
MMIO Size 16777216
Accelerator nVidia Arch 10


fbset -i -fb /dev/fb1

mode "640x480-60"
#D:25.176 MHz, H:31.469 kHz, V:59.942 Hz
geometry 640 400 640 3072 8
timings 39721 40 24 32 11 96 2
accel true
rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0
endmode

Frame buffer device information
Name NV32
Address 0xd0000000
Size 2097152
Type PACKED PIXELS
Visual PSEUDOCOLOR
XPanStep 8
YPanStep 1
YWrapStep 0
LineLength 0
MMIO Address 0xff000000
MMIO Size 16777216
Accelerator nVidia Arch 30

Currently I am seeing an error at boot-up related to my second graphics card ...

PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 0000:02:02.0

I am really struggling with this as it appears that everyone else is interested in setting-up framebuffer on primary monitors and/or using 'X'.

What drivers should I include? Do I need any as modules? How can I correct the resource error? How may /dev/fb* should I be seeing? etc!!!

Cheers!