Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:29:51 +0100 (MET) | | From | Pozsar Balazs <> | | Subject | Re: FBdev remains in unusable state |
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz said: > > Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt, X11 paragraph, last sentence: > > -------8<----- > > The X-Server must restore the video mode correctly, else you end up > > with a broken console (and vesafb cannot do anything about this). > > -------8<----- > > This isn't strictly true. We could just call the VESA BIOS to set it up > again for us. The 'vesa' XFree86 driver manages to do this perfectly well > from userspace, even.
Then why not include this set up code into vesafb?
-- Balazs Pozsar
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