Bug#207543: xserver-xfree86: prefBusID patch to select prefered PCI bus id
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 21:57, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
>
> this patch makes it possibel to select which busid the xserver
> should operate on. this is handy if two or more graphic cards in
> a box run independent xservers and need to reset the card
> independently from the other xserver. this patch features the
> requested clean up configuration interface via the XF86Config
> file. then one can write stuff like this in ones config:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "X0"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Mouse2" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> Option "PrefBusID" "1:0:0"
> EndSection
The X server knows which PCI devices are in use by its drivers, couldn't
this be just a boolean option to only deal with those?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
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