From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1033456AbXEIDFw (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 23:05:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1032505AbXEIDFo (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 23:05:44 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:39399 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1032489AbXEIDFn (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 23:05:43 -0400 Message-ID: <46413A7E.5050304@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 23:05:34 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Linus Torvalds , "Antonino A. Daplas" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e References: <46413851.6070505@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <46413851.6070505@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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