Xorg cannot see secondary or tertiary PCI bus?

Ian Romanick idr at us.ibm.com
Thu Jan 3 22:17:19 PST 2008


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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.
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