Re: patch-2.4.19-pre5-ac2

Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-05T10:18:38Z

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Peter Horton wrote:
> 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().

You have to reinit the acceleration engine if FB_ACCELF_TEXT is set again. If
this is already the case, you may be running an X server that's not fbdev aware
(or aren't using `option UseFBDev'?)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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