Hi On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Christopher Harvey <charvey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm looking for the mechanism in the kernel that makes the decision to > load the efifb driver over a dri one. Any tips? I've got a machine here > that loads efifb and prevents dri drivers from loading. If you want to use efifb over DRM drivers, you must unload the DRM drivers or blacklist them. The kernel is designed to prefer real hardware drivers over generic fallbacks (like efifb, vesafb, ...). See ./drivers/video/fbmem.c remove_conflicting_framebuffers(). This is called by DRM drivers to kick out any conflicting fbdev drivers. Cheers David _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
