On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 10:38:22PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Tom Rini wrote: > > > I didn't know they were needed for the "fbdev" driver. > > Omitting it is a nice way to kill your machine if the graphics chips is a PCI > device...
Are you sure? On my G4 I swear I got an older version working w/ just Driver "fbdev". > > > BTW, what would be really nice for the fbdev driver is an option to specify > > the fbX to use. That way you can have >1 fbdev driver and have multihead > > more easily. > > There already is, Option "fbdev". Option "fbdev" "/dev/fbX" ? This doesn't need a BusID as well, then, right? > > > People might argue you may want to hit the hardware directly even when > > > using fbdevs, but correct behavior of that combination is not guaranteed > > > anyway. > > > > Right. What options are you allowed to use w/ fbdev that might bang the > > hardware directly? (not the UseFBDev stuff..). > > I don't understand what you mean, please elaborate. Well, I'm only guessing what Geert ment, but when using the fbdev X driver, how can you bang the hardware directly? -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
