From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 23:05:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46413A7E.5050304@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46413851.6070505@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Checkin 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e "fbdev: ignore VESA
> modes if framebuffer is disabled" is just plain wrong on any system
> which has support for extended text modes in its VESA BIOS.
>
> Antonio is incorrectly assuming this branchout is used only to set VESA
> graphics modes, but it's to set any VESA mode, be it text or graphics.
I wonder if this fbdev update is what causes my X session to die?
I'm using the VESA driver on my ATI R580, and just filed this bug report
minutes ago: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/8/667
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-09 3:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-09 2:56 Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 3:05 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-05-09 3:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 3:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-09 3:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-09 6:02 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-05-09 5:56 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-05-09 5:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 6:16 ` Antonino A. Daplas
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