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From: "Bryan W. Headley" <bwheadley@earthlink.net>
To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: [parisc-linux] XFree-4.2 and C110
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 09:48:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D1F1A32.7060407@earthlink.net> (raw)

Tried the new 4.2.0 snapshots on my C110. It tells me it cannot find the 
framebuffer, and can't support 24-bit color (even though 4.1 can).

The system appears to be looking in /proc/bus/pci to look for video 
cards and framebuffers, which is a bogus way to find video cards on a 
PC, too (VESA bus, ISA, EISA, MCA... where is that video card?)

On the sparc/32, they're going down /proc/openprom to find the video 
adapter; I'm wondering if it's appropriate to try to expose the device 
list the kernel sees during bootup as a /proc file, and then write a 
special handler like they have for "sbus".

I'm not too fond of synthesizing a "pci" directory, and making up fake 
IDs for things that aren't PCI cards...

a) anyone already come up with a better solution?
b) if one has to be developed, is a little file in /proc the way to go?

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Bryan W. Headley - bwheadley@earthlink.net

             reply	other threads:[~2002-06-30 14:47 UTC|newest]

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2002-06-30 14:48 Bryan W. Headley [this message]
2002-06-30 22:10 ` [parisc-linux] XFree-4.2 and C110 Matthew Wilcox

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