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I have just been investigating a problem whereby the
current X driver uses the wrong frame buffer device. This is caused by a change that happened ages ago and
instead of looking for the fbdev option it is currently looking for ivtv. Since it doesn’t find an ivtv option it will
default to looking for a device specified in the FRAMEBUFFER environment
variable and then defaults to /dev/fb0 So if you need to use a device other than /dev/fb0
and you are using V04-V06 of the ivtv X driver then you need to either 1) modify
your Config file to add an ivtv option (I would suggest adding an ivtv option
rather than changing the fbdev since I want to change this back for V07) Section “device” Identifier
“Haupagge 350” Driver “ivtvdev” Option
“fbdev” “/dev/fb1” Option
“ivtv” “/dev/fb1” BusID “…..” EndSection 2) set
the FRAMEBUFFER environment variable ie export FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1 For the next version I will
also try to add some code so that the probe does more than just open the
device. It should really determine that the device it opens is actually an ivtv
driver. John |
