Re: PCI amiga's..

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > I do know that the option UseFBDev will make XFree use the kernel fbdev
> > API _once the card has been detected_. What I complain about is the lack
> > of a mechanism to tell XFree 'don't touch this card, the kernel fbdev
> > driver at /dev/fb<index> knows how to handle it' already at the probe stage.
> 
> If you provide the bus ID, the X server won't mess with the device if the
> memory regions etc. are sane. Development is taking place to automate the
> (non-trivial) assignment fbdev <-> pcidev . If you know how to do it easily,

> patches go to pa...@XF... or fi...@XF..., design suggestions to
> xp...@XF... :)

However, it's quite easy to match fbdevs with PCI devs, cfr. the patches I
send to Michel.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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