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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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