From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39998B4F.2AD2E17E@student.ethz.ch> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:26:22 +0200 From: Michel D nzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin M. Myer" CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Control fb problem on 8500 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: "Kevin M. Myer" wrote: > Secondly, the video chip doesn't show up on the PCI bus. Although XFree86 > 4.0 apparently supports the controlfb (which is what the 8500 has), it > also needs a BusID to be used. Am I out of luck with using XFree86 4.0 or > newer with my machine? Or generically, is anyone without a card on the > PCI bus out of luck? No, the contrary, you're very lucky! :) As the chip doesn't show up, the X server can't deactivate it. So you don't need to specify a bus ID (which would prevent the server of disabling the chip ;). Michel ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/