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On Llu, 2004-08-16 at 10:50, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> no, now you're acting like an even more broken driver, preventing a fbdev
> driver to be loaded afterwards and doing all kinds of funny things.  Please
> revert to the old method until you have a common pci_driver for fbdev and dri.

fbdev and DRI are not functional together in the general case. They
sometimes happen to work by luck. fbdev and X for that matter are
generally incompatible except unaccelerated.