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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Cc: Pozsar Balazs <pozsy@sch.bme.hu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FBdev remains in unusable state
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:35:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8895.1008243321@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BCF7BFC1D50@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz>
In-Reply-To: <BCF7BFC1D50@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz>


VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz said:
> Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt, X11 paragraph, last sentence:
> -------8<----- 
> The X-Server must restore the video mode correctly, else you end up
> with a broken console (and vesafb cannot do anything about this).
> -------8<----- 

This isn't strictly true. We could just call the VESA BIOS to set it up
again for us. The 'vesa' XFree86 driver manages to do this perfectly well
from userspace, even.

--
dwmw2



  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-13 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-12 21:55 FBdev remains in unusable state Petr Vandrovec
2001-12-13 11:35 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-12-13 13:29   ` Pozsar Balazs
2001-12-13 16:11     ` David Woodhouse
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-13 18:00 Petr Vandrovec
2001-12-13 17:03 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-12 21:32 Petr Vandrovec
2001-12-12 20:42 ` Pozsar Balazs
2001-12-12 20:13 Petr Vandrovec
2001-12-12 20:14 ` Pozsar Balazs
2001-12-12 18:49 Pozsar Balazs

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