Messages in this thread | | | From | "Petr Vandrovec" <> | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:13:59 MET-1 | Subject | Re: FBdev remains in unusable state |
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On 12 Dec 01 at 19:49, Pozsar Balazs wrote: > > The video card is a matrox G450, and I am using the vesa framebuffer. > (I know there's a seperate mga fb driver, but this should work for this > combination)
No. vesafb does not work together with mga driver in X (although I believe that vesafb works with XFree mga driver, only Matrox driver is binary bad citizen).
> Is this a bug in the kernel fb code, or in X? Are there any workarounds? > How could I restore textmode?
Neither. X restore R/W registers to their previous values, while write-only registers to their values for normal text mode. Yes, there is a 'workaround'. Use (much faster) matroxfb. Best regards, Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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