Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> | Date | Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:02:35 +0100 (BST) |
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> Does that mean X can't restore it either, if it exits properly? Does > it mean that some information which would enable us to reset the card > is lost when X dies? Or does it just mean that the card has crashed,
The Cirrus cards have situations where unless you know the cards current state you can't set a new state reliably. To make it more fun the registers are sometimes write only
> If the latter is the case, GGI/KGI won't help either!
fbcon/KGIcon can help here providing all video control access goes through its kernel interface. The moment you run a non fbcon/KGI X server yes you lose again. Thanks to the fbcon module interface its now about to become a matter of "slightly faster" v "slightly more kernel overhead/memory" by user choice - which is the ideal solution
Alan
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