From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39D484DD.30E5B75D@student.ethz.ch> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:02:37 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven CC: Michael Schmitz , R Shapiro , Michael Schmitz , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: xf 4.0.1 + ati driver with rage II/rage pro References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > So here we have three fb devices in the kernel (you could check with > > fbset that each is in fact accessible via /dev/fb[0-2]), and XFree unable > > to cope. You specify the PCI bus ID but not the corresponding framebuffer > > device node - I heard someone mention this was possible when I was > > fighting the Lombard crashes, could anyone point out the syntax to use > > there? > > > > If we can't specify the fb node XFree will have to probe for it (Geert > > mentioned an easy way to do that: open the device and compare > > pScrn->memPhysBase or fPtr->fix.smem_start to the PCI base address). > > Besides, the current fbdev_open_pci() can't cope with multiple cards of the > same type, and doesn't recognize ATI Mach64. Which should also be fixed now. Another update :) Reminder: The binary modules are at http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/X4-fbdev-test.tar.bz2 , the diff is at http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/X-fbdev.diff.gz Mr Shapiro, please test if this makes the ati driver work in your triple-head box. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/