[haiku] Re: selecting a video device
- From: Michael Mounteney <gate03@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 17:34:48 +1000
Picking up a fairly old thread, has anything been done with this yet ?
Is there a ticket I could watch ?
Michael.
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:34:20 +0200
Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/12/2011 04:45 PM, François Revol wrote:
> > On BeOS, it was possible to hack the Bootscript to add something
> > like ln -s /dev/graphics/pci_nnnn_mmmm_001 /dev/graphics/_firstcard
> > early before starting app_server,
> > and have it picked first by app_server since it was alpha-sorted.
> >
> > Sadly Haiku's devfs doesn't seem to support symlinks (yet ?).
>
> It supports them, but only internally, and so it won't let you do
> such hacks indeed.
> Besides, this is entirely unrelated to the problem at hand, where
> both outputs are powered by the same device.
>
> Bye,
> Axel.
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