Xorg cannot see secondary or tertiary PCI bus?

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 22:33:58 PST 2008


On Jan 4, 2008 4:17 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Ricardo Lugo wrote:
> > I have recently decided to convert a PowerPC machine to a linux server
> > since Leopard ran so slow on it, and have run into some problems with
> > setting up Xorg due the apparently complicated PCI bus naming scheme.
> > Here are my problems:
> >
> > 1) scanpci/pcitweak can't find any devices on the secondary or tertiary
> > PCI buses
> >
> > 2) I can't figure out the BusID for my iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (mainly
> > because the bus is "0001:10")
>
> [snip]
>
> > Does anyone have any advice that might shed some light on this issue?
>
> Those devices are in different PCI domains, and released versions of
> X.org do not have multi-domain support on PowerPC.  However, support has
> been in git since about the middle of last year.  The bad news is that
> you'll likely have to build it from scratch for yourself.

Or install Fedora rawhide. ajax has packaged a fairly recent master.

Dave.



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