Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Apr 2004 00:31:45 +0100 (BST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] vesafb and *fb |
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I don't know why it is that way. I would think it should fail at this point. Anyone know why this is?
> Yesterday I noticed on a box at work that if you compile in both vesafb and > atyfb (the box has an ATI 3D RAGE PRO), you get both fb0 (atyfb) and fb1 > (vesafb). That's not supposed to happen. > > Vesafb did print that the frame buffer was already in use, but it just > continued, cfr. this code: > > if (!request_mem_region(vesafb_fix.smem_start, vesafb_fix.smem_len, "vesafb")) { > printk(KERN_WARNING > "vesafb: abort, cannot reserve video memory at 0x%lx\n", > vesafb_fix.smem_start); > /* We cannot make this fatal. Sometimes this comes from magic > spaces our resource handlers simply don't know about */ > } > > That was on plain 2.6.5. But to my surprise the latest 2.4 behaves the same. > This seems to have been changed in 2.4.15. > Does anyone know why this was changed? > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Linux-fbdev-devel mailing list > Linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-fbdev-devel >
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