Re: kernel 2.6.0-test9 & xfree86
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 07:19, Adam Done wrote:
> After many test compiles with all 2.6.x kernels I have come up with an
> issue dealing with xfree86 4.2.1-13. When the system was done booting
> and ran gdm I only could use one X display and had no access to any
> tty terminal windows. I then tried to boot into text first and found
> out that I could use any tty to log in to the box. Now when I use
> startx it does not start in the correct tty but in tty1 and then have
> no access to any other tty.
[...]
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ati128"
> Driver "fbdev"
> BusID "PCI:0:16:0"
> Option "UseFBDev" "true"
> EndSection
Option "UseFBDev" makes no sense with the fbdev driver, so it's ignored.
You really want to use the ati / r128 driver though, but that requires
aty128fb in console, and it sounds like you may be running OFfb.
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