From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Otto Solares Subject: Re: Changing modes with fbset Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:31:44 -0600 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040109013144.GC17821@guug.org> References: <20040106002822.GB442@guug.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AelUb-0005Ua-Im for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:31:17 -0800 Received: from guug.org ([168.234.203.30] helo=guug.galileo.edu) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AelUb-0005P2-7X for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:31:17 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: James Simmons Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:03:16AM +0000, James Simmons wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Otto Solares wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:06:04AM +0000, James Simmons wrote: > > > > > > Applied. Thanks for finding that. > > > > Hi James! now that you are back again, i would like to suggest > > a modification to fbdev core, i am having problems guessing > > which card is attached to a fb device. I need this info to > > solve the 'more than 1 card' situation. This could be easily > > fixed if the fbdev api provides the busid of the card, like > > "pci:0000:01:0.0". That would solve a lot of things in the > > HAL detection routines. Maybe that could be exported via > > sysfs but i have been waiting for sysfs for a while and don't > > see it coming to a reality. Maybe an ioctl is enough. > > The patches are getting pushed. With sysfs the info is there :-) Great! -solca ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html