Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:

quoted

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


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