Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 May 2004 19:20:56 +0200 | From | Kronos <> | Subject | Re: Problems with radeonfb |
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Il Sun, May 16, 2004 at 06:32:51PM +0200, Sven Wilhelm ha scritto: > >You compiled in both radeon drivers. The old driver is complaining that > >the PCI device is already taken by something else. Use only one driver. > yes I did, but I thought the kernel would decide which driver to use.
PCI drivers claim for themselves a range of IDs (.id_table in struct pci_driver). A driver cannot "take over" another one, so when the old radeonfb tries to register itself for the same ID of the new radeonfb it gets an error.
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