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From: "W. Taylor Holliday" <wtholliday@ucdavis.edu>
To: Kostas Gewrgiou <gewrgiou@imbc.gr>,
	"Michel D?nzer" <daenzerm@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: XFree 4.0 dual monitor on AGP G4
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:51:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200004280051.RAA20647@pop3.ucdavis.edu> (raw)


>
>  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.

> 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...
>
>   Kostas
>

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?

- Taylor

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             reply	other threads:[~2000-04-28  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-04-28  0:51 W. Taylor Holliday [this message]
2000-04-28  6:09 ` XFree 4.0 dual monitor on AGP G4 Michel Dänzer
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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