Re: short display with 2.1.132-ac3, matroxfb and XF86_SVGA 3.3.3

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 15:24:42 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> You cannot and should not mix XFree86 servers (except the frame buffer
> console server) with the kernel frame buffer driver. Period.

That's a kernel frame buffer bug as far as I can tell.

If the text console can live together with X messing with the display
device, there is no reason why the frame buffer console shouldn't do the
same. We already have all the code to serialize the accesses.

Linus

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