On 31 Jan 01 at 17:41, J Brook wrote:
>
> I don't have Windows installed on my machine, but I find that if I
> cold boot to 2.2 (RH7) first and start up X (4.0.2 with Matrox driver
> 1.00.04 compiled in), I am then able to "shutdown -r now" and warm
Yes, they use same secret code... At least I think...
> restart to 2.4 with FB acceleration enabled. This generally works
> fine for me.
>
> This isn't generally too much of a problem because 2.4.x is so
> stable
> I don't have to reboot for weeks!
You can reboot any number of times you want. Just do not unplug
powercord from computer...
> I'm willing to try out some patches if that would be useful.
Problem is that I really do not have any idea what's wrong - as
after any change I do to driver, I cannot know for sure whether
after boot it works because of I worked around some problem, or
because of hardware powered up in `correct' state...
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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