Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 10 Sep 2002 23:23:21 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 23:00, David Woodhouse wrote: > Why change video mode? As long as X told the kernel what it's doing, we > know how to drive a linear framebuffer and in fact a few other types of > framebuffers. In the 'oh shit' case we could at least _attempt_ to spew our > dying splutter onto the screen.
It changes video mode to get the hardware into a known or roughly known state. Linear framebuffer is a bit of an assumption both at the low end (windowed) and high end (no framebuffer or tiled)
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