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In article <2000Feb14.211534.15406@lorelei.approve.se>, hoh@approve.se.NO_JUNK_EMAIL (Goran Larsson) writes:

|> > To be able to run "headful" but with a better frame buffer than
|> > the on-board one?
|> 
|> A jumper is not needed for that. The search order for the S-bus slots
|> are specified in NVRAM (sbus-probe-list) and the default search order
|> has the onboard S-bus slot (e.g. the one with the bwtwo frame buffer in
|> the IPC) after the "free to use" S-bus slots. Just adding a frame
|> buffer will make the X server use that one instead (or both if asked
|> to).

AFAIR the X server will by default probe for /dev/bw*[0-9] and
/dev/cg*[0-9] and use all it can find. At least when I put the
second bw2 into my Sparc-2, all I needed to do to have X11R6.0
use it was "mknod c /dev/bwtwo1 27 1".

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