From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39085B6D.CD5C811D@student.ethz.ch> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:23:25 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kostas Gewrgiou CC: "W. Taylor Holliday" , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: XFree 4.0 dual monitor on AGP G4 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/