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From: Michel Dänzer <daenzerm@student•ethz.ch>
To: "W. Taylor Holliday" <wtholliday@ucdavis•edu>
Cc: Kostas Gewrgiou <gewrgiou@imbc•gr>, linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: XFree 4.0 dual monitor on AGP G4
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:09:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39092B2B.249FFC07@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200004280051.RAA20647@pop3.ucdavis.edu


"W. Taylor Holliday" wrote:
>
> >
> >  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, without the fbdev option you always
> > get /dev/fb0 which might not be what you want.
>
> According to the XFree 4 documentation, the BusID determines the device, and
> thus the framebuffer used, even in the case of fbdev. So I'm kinda confused.

This doesn't apply to framebuffer devices, I guess it's about the PCI devices.
There's currently no safe way to find the corresponding fbdev for a given PCI
device and vice versa. But it's being worked on.


> > Here is a small patch (untested) that changes r128 to use the "fbdev"
> > option instead of using BusID to get the fbdev device.
> > If the BusID and fbdev options don't match bad things will happen
> > so be carefull there.
> > For people that don't have more than one r128 card the previous behaviour
> > works better so don't use it...
>
> If I apply your patch and recompile, how should I modify the config file?
> Get rid of all BusID's? Just for the second monitor?

I suggest always giving all BusIDs, it doesn't hurt as long as BusID and fbdev
match.


Michel


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  reply	other threads:[~2000-04-28  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-04-28  0:51 XFree 4.0 dual monitor on AGP G4 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-28  6:09 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2000-04-28  7:47   ` Michael Schmitz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
2000-04-26 19:45 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
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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