Re: patch-2.4.19-pre5-ac2

Peter Horton
2002-04-05T06:58:13Z

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 08:19:49PM -0600, Jonathan A. Davis wrote:
>
> The radeon updates in pre5-ac2 seem to make a minor mess out of my Radeon
> 7500's console fb. After X starts up -- switching back to a text console
> results in artifacts from the X display contents plus borked scrolling.
> No tendency to crash though and switching back to X results in a normal X
> display. I dropped out the patches to:
>

Yep. The accelerator needs resetting on each console switch so that we
can cope when X leaves it in a funky state. The new patch I posted
yesterday should fix it, or for a quick fix add the lines

if(accel)
radeon_engine_init_var();

after the call to do_install_cmap() in radeon_fb_setvar().

P.