Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Jan 1999 11:01:57 +0100 (CET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: short display with 2.1.132-ac3, matroxfb and XF86_SVGA 3.3.3 |
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On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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.
It's the other way round: the X server can't live with the frame buffer console. It can live with the text console only.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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