Re: 2.6.7-bk16, mode-switch-in-fbcon_blank.patch breaks X on r128

Olaf Hering
2004-07-04T17:10:33Z

On Sun, Jul 04, Jurriaan wrote:

> From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
> Date: Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 06:03:58PM +0200
> >
> > This patch, which went into 2.6.7-bk16, breaks X on my ibook with r128
> > chipset. X starts just fine, but the screen stays black. I can switch to
> > a textconsole and the console login appears.
> >
> > I see no errors in dmesg or XFree86.0.log. Its version 4.3.0 from SuSE 8.2.
> >
>
> I also had problems (switching back from X to console rewrote my refresh
> rate from 85 to 60 Hz) and this patch was posted in the
> linux-fbdev-devel mailinglist which solved my problems.
>
> could you try it and let Antonino A Daplas (adaplas @ pol.net) know if
> this worked for you?

No, this will not work, fbcon_resize() is called before fbcon_blank(). I
think the removed code in fbcon_blank() is needed.