It is. The problem is both drivers have opinions about how the card is
configured.
> Maybe matroxfb should be fixed to work better with XFree -- after all
> plain text console and 2.1.127 version of matroxfb work perfectly for my
> purposes. Maybe I should take a look at matroxfb diffs and try to do it
> myself ... or is this something not easily accomplished?
It is probably doable given some Matrox documentation. You need to look at
both XFree setup/restore of the matrox chipset and the fbcon server to be
sure
o The matrox X server doesnt assume anything about the old mode being
text mode when it starts, and doesn't rely on bios time configured
values
o The matrox X server doesnt fail to restore anything or assume text
mode restoration. If it can't restore all the state then
o You need to make sure turning graphics mode off (there is an ioctl
where the X server tells the kernel its managing the display and
hands off) that the matrox fbcon rebuilds enough state itself
to work.
o Finally that the fbcon code doesnt do anything either it (when you
set graphics mode) or the Xserver itself cannot recover from.
Alan
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