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Subject: Accel ATI Rage 128 support, the very first step (Help needed)
From: geert () linux-m68k ! org (Geert Uytterhoeven)
Date: 1999-10-28 18:44:41
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.05.9910282043170.6037-100000 () callisto ! of ! borg
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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, anthony tong wrote:
> Charlie McLachlan (Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 11:46:15AM +0100):
> > 2) If I recompile aty128fb, how do I replace the currently active version
> > without having to restart? (i.e. how do I change frame buffer modules?)
>
> You don't; at least, I've never been able to unregister a fbdev driver
> and re-registering a new one. I'm not sure if this has been fixed recently
> though.
If you have a second active frame buffer device, you can unload the first after
you mapped all VCs to the second. It works for me: I can unload/reload vga16fb
for my S3 Trio64V+ while atyfb serves my RAGE II+.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert at 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
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