Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: vgacon fixes to help font restauration in X11 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:23:21 +0000 |
On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 09:07, Egbert Eich wrote: > Can you point me to these reports? > I tested with a couple chipsets here and didn't find any problems.
I'll take a dig. The ones I've got are for 2.4 so relate to old code.
> We could check for the kernel version. This could be done during build > time - assuming we don't ship generic binaries or during run time if we > want to provide binaries that work everywhere. > In reality the former would be sufficient for a lot of cases - especially > for vendor supplied binaries.
The former would be a disaster for Fedora for example - we ship 'current' kernels and having kernel upgrades require a new X11 won't endear users . A runtime check on version might work I was wondering if it would be better to have an actual interface that said "do/do not restore the extra bits in kernel".
That also avoids any suprises and regressions ?
> Anyway, would my patch be acceptable for the kernel?
I'm not video maintainer but other than the detection question it looks sensible to me.
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