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From: Michel Dänzer <daenzerm@student•ethz.ch>
To: Kostas Gewrgiou <gewrgiou@imbc•gr>
Cc: "W. Taylor Holliday" <wtholliday@ucdavis•edu>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: XFree 4.0 dual monitor on AGP G4
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:23:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39085B6D.CD5C811D@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.21.0004271613030.8585-100000@idd-01.imbc.gr


Kostas Gewrgiou wrote:

> > PS: I still think it should work with the r128 driver if it support the
> > "fbdev" option...
>
>  Yes it would work, there is a problem with the approach taken by
> fbdev/glint, the BusID info isn't used at all there for the choise
> of the device to be opened,

Really? The code seems to do it IMHO.

> without the fbdev option you always get /dev/fb0 which might not be what you
> want.

Almost certainly not (Ask Taylor ;)


> Here is a small patch (untested) that changes r128 to use the "fbdev"
> option instead of using BusID to get the fbdev device.

The patch you included in the later mail is reversed, so you have to use the
-R option to apply it.

Just a hint...


Michel


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-04-27 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-04-26 19:45 XFree 4.0 dual monitor on AGP G4 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-27 11:10 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-27 13:35   ` Kostas Gewrgiou
2000-04-27 13:57     ` Kostas Gewrgiou
2000-04-27 15:23     ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-04-28  0:51 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-28  6:09 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-28  7:47   ` Michael Schmitz
2000-04-28  0:42 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-28  6:06 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-26 22:54 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-27 13:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-04-26 19:51 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-26 20:05 ` Michael Schmitz
2000-04-24  6:16 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-25 11:23 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-25  9:27   ` W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-25 16:51     ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-25 18:30       ` W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-26 12:26         ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-26 13:54           ` Kostas Gewrgiou
2000-04-26 14:16             ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-26 16:53             ` Ryuichi Oikawa
2000-04-26 17:02               ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-28 16:37                 ` Ryuichi Oikawa
2000-04-25 17:22     ` Michael Schmitz

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