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

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:28:08 +0100 (MET)


On 4 Jan 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:

> I do not say you cannot, I do say there may be problems and therefore
> people are lucky if it works - it is not guaranteed to work as in the
> example with the Mach64 server.

It is supported to work. If the X-Server does crazy things with the video
board, it _must_ reverse these on exit and console switches. It works
with the text console, why it should'nt work with fbcon too?

It does'nt work (some versions of??) AccelX, becauce it _allways_ switches
back to 80x25 text mode.

There are some boards where you can't read the current state (completely).
With these the X-Server of cource has bad/no chances to restore things
correctly. Blame your hardware. With such hardware you probably have the
same problem if you try to switch between two X-Servers or between X and
svgalib.

Gerd

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