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Hello,

> Aha, I didn't know that we needed a console driver for XFree86 to work
> - I assumed that if the card had OFW (and could be seen by the
> OpenBoot PROM as the console) and was supported by XFree86, everything
> would be OK.

XFree tries to mmap the graphics board's aperture, registers etc. via
/dev/ttyE*, at least for PCI and AGP ones - without a wsdisplay sitting
on it there wouldn't be such a device. For SBus and UPA boards it's
using something much more sane - the good old SunOSish /dev/fb*.
I guess when I have too much time some day ( yeah, how likely is that? )
I'll hack XFree to use /dev/fb* for PCI devices too, adding a fb device
to any display driver is rather trivial. All we need is a device entry
per board that supports a handful ioctl()s to identify the board, read
some parameters ( like ranges and so on ) and mmap() it.

have fun
Michael

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