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Re: ghostie screen



On Friday 04 January 2002 04:30 am, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Russell Hires wrote:
> > > > > What framebuffer and X driver is this? tdfxfb and tdfx?
> > >
> > > Framebuffer driver:	cat /proc/fb
> >
> > rusty@poet:~$ cat /proc/fb
> > 0 3Dfx Voodoo3
> > 1 ATY Mach64
> > 2 OFfb /pci/3Dfx,Voodoo3
>
> Ugh, do you really have 2 Voodoo3 boards? 
No...
> If not, two drivers are messing
> with your board at the same time! 
Eeeeek!
> Someone really should add resource
> management code to tfxdb to prevent this from happening (and move the call
> to tdfxfb_init up in fbmem.c, cfr. the comments in that file).
>
> Workaround for now: add `video=offb:off' to the kernel command line.
I'll try that, let you know how it goes. 
> Which kernel version are you using?
2.4.17 or 2.4.16, there's a kernel bug I haven't been able to pin down 
because my display is messed up when I get dropped into xmon. Hopefully this 
will help me get the info out of xmon...
Thanks!

Russell
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> 						Geert



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