Re: short display with 2.1.132-ac3, matroxfb and XF86_SVGA 3.3.3

Jakub Jelinek (jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 08:59:22 +0100 (CET)

> Running X servers that are not frame buffer device aware while using frame
> buffer devices may cause unexpected results. The only solution is to integrate
> the XFree86 MGA acceleration into XF{68,86}_FBDev, as was already done for
> ATI Mach64 acceleration:
>
> http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/bin/xc-3.3.3-geert-19981210.diff.gz

The other way is to check in all XF86 X servers (Xsun* and
XF86_Mach64/sparc64 do it already) for fbcon and add a special linux code to
restore mode to the fbcon's one instead of text mode.
I think both ways should be implemented.

Cheers,
Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
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