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Re: X autodetection when several video cards are detected?



El jueves, 22 de marzo de 2007, Petter Reinholdtsen escribió:
> Please have a look at bug #415620.  It report a problem configuring X
> properly when several video cards were detected, and the first one had
> 'unknown' as the driver.  This is the source of the problem:
>
>   # discover --disable=serial,parallel,usb,ide,scsi --format="%V
> %M\t%S\t%D\n" video 2> /dev/null
> Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder  unknown 
unknown
> ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]     XFree86 ati
>   ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] (Secondary) XFree86 ati
>
> When discover return this output, I believe xserver-xorg.postinst
> should ignore the entry with unknown X driver, and pick one of the
> other ones.  At the moment it pick the first entry, and this end up
> with 'vesa' as the driver even if 'ati' is the correct choice.  Not
> sure if it should pick the first, the last, or some other selection
> among the entries without 'unknown' as the driver.  Not sure if it
> matter much either.
>
> What are the X teams view on this?

	Why the first one?  How are they probed, by PCI order?

	Best regards,


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