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Re: FEEDBACK WANTED: What to do about XF86Config-4 BusID?



On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 05:09:22PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > It's not a question of whether it's useful, it's a question of whether it's
> > NECESSARY.  I haven't heard reports about any other architecture
> > *requiring* an explicit BusID in the XF86Config-4 file for the server to
> > work.  If that proves to be the case, I'll add them to the list.
> 
> With your 4.1.0 from two weeks or so back, I didn't have to specify a
> busid at all. Rage LT Pro, not 128.

Well, I had to for 0pre1v5.  Maybe the atimisc driver has more brains that
the r128 driver...

> It seems this can be solved without giving a busid. If not, autodetect it
> for one device, ask on finding more than one and switch to fbdev on
> finding no device.

You mean the fbdev driver, or "UseFBDev"?

If the former, then I need to do my lspci parsing and busid template
management before prompting the user for a driver.  If no VGA device is
found, I would then not ask any questions about the video hardware.

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