On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 13:41:08 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 12:49 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 01:21 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > > No, I would have said that if time is tight at least we can use
> > > "fbdev" as the Xorg driver for PCI devices on sparc until we have a
> > > better fix for Xorg.
> > 
> > We can probably do that for r1.
> 
> OK so here is a tentative patch to fall back to the fbdev driver on
> sparc.  I'd appreciate if people could test it against lenny's
> xorg-server, and/or suggest better ways to do this.
> 
That patch doesn't work, because X craps itself if both a pci and a fb
driver are loaded.  I plan to revert it for lenny r2, and if time
permits I'll try to make the xserver-xorg package generate an xorg.conf
with Driver set to fbdev instead..

Cheers,
Julien



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