xf 4.0.1 + ati driver with rage II/rage pro

Kostas Gewrgiou gewrgiou at imbc.gr
Sat Sep 30 03:25:05 EST 2000


On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:

> That's not fixable at the X level (well, technically it is but I can't
> figure out how and the X people refuse to consider that method). You will
> need to boot via OF and yaboot (or equivalent oldworld) directly, not via
> BootX to avoid the PCI resource conflict. Alternative: fix the resource
> conflict at the kernel level, new patch by me in the works.

Hmm if you think that its fixable in the X level then we should give it
a try, i can't see how though unless we get X to accept this allocations
(are they legal ?). Any relocation is going to break the fbdev side since
there is no way to inform the atyfb driver about this changes.

  Kostas


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