Re: Bug#261777: Problems handling multiple detected video cards

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> Package: xserver-xfree86
> Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5
> Severity: normal
>
> On my laptop, discover erroneously detects two video cards, one trident and
> one s3virge.  In reality, there is only one s3virge card.  Anyway, this
> seems to confuse the xserver-xfree86 .config script, which displays
> xserver-xfree86/multiple_possible_x-drivers, but then defaults to "vesa"
> rather than one of the drivers that were chosen by discover.  I assume this
> would affect actual systems with more than one video card as well.

Sorry Matt, i took the freedom to add the discover output from our irc
chat.

Toshiba America Info Systems 601        XFree86 trident
S3 Inc. ViRGE/MX        XFree86 s3virge

Fabio

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