From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
To: Pozsar Balazs <pozsy@sch.bme.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FBdev remains in unusable state
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:13:59 MET-1 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BCDCADB4194@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> (raw)
On 12 Dec 01 at 19:49, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
>
> The video card is a matrox G450, and I am using the vesa framebuffer.
> (I know there's a seperate mga fb driver, but this should work for this
> combination)
No. vesafb does not work together with mga driver in X (although
I believe that vesafb works with XFree mga driver, only Matrox driver
is binary bad citizen).
> Is this a bug in the kernel fb code, or in X? Are there any workarounds?
> How could I restore textmode?
Neither. X restore R/W registers to their previous values, while write-only
registers to their values for normal text mode. Yes, there is a
'workaround'. Use (much faster) matroxfb.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
next reply other threads:[~2001-12-12 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-12 20:13 Petr Vandrovec [this message]
2001-12-12 20:14 ` FBdev remains in unusable state Pozsar Balazs
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2001-12-13 18:00 Petr Vandrovec
2001-12-13 17:03 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-12 21:55 Petr Vandrovec
2001-12-13 11:35 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-13 13:29 ` Pozsar Balazs
2001-12-13 16:11 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-12 21:32 Petr Vandrovec
2001-12-12 20:42 ` Pozsar Balazs
2001-12-12 18:49 Pozsar Balazs
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