Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: FBdev remains in unusable state | Date | Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:35:21 +0000 |
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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.
-- dwmw2
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