Tom Rini wrote: > > 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".
Maybe you're lucky and your old version doesn't disable display PCI devices which aren't claimed by any driver :) > > > 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" ? Exactly. > This doesn't need a BusID as well, then, right? Actually yes. /dev/fb0 is just the default value for this option. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and the DRI project
