From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Simmons Subject: Re: Changing modes with fbset Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 00:03:16 +0000 (GMT) Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <20040106002822.GB442@guug.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Aek7a-0007uN-Gn for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:03:26 -0800 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1Aek7Z-00032s-VW for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:03:26 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20040106002822.GB442@guug.org> 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: Otto Solares Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 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 :-) > > -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