Re: 2.1.115: VESA FB/Diamond Viper V330 nuisance
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 11:04:39 +0200 (CEST)
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> I just threw myself into the cold water again and tried a development kernel
> again (admittedly, only for to see the boot logo :-) and I experienced that
> the video card's hardware cursor is not turned off when switching from X to a
> text/FB console. I don't think this is a problem, it's only a bit annoying,
> but I thought the maintainer(s) of VESA/FB wnated to know this. The hard facts
> are:
>
> - plain Linux 2.1.115
> - Diamond Viper V330 PCI 4MB (NVidia Riva 128 chip)
> - XFree86 3.3.2 SVGA server
> - occurred in all VGA modes I tried (640x480x256, 800x600x64K, 800x600x256,
> 1024x768x256)
> - if that matters (I doubt it): Cyrix 6x86L PR200, 64MB RAM
>
> I wonder why/if anyone else hasn't experienced this ?!
> Maybe it's a problem of the X Server, though.
This isn't vesafb's fault. If you switch away from a VC you're running X on,
the X server (not XF68_FBDev) is supposed to restore the original video mode.
The problem is that X servers do not expect graphics modes on normal VCs, but
VGA text mode.
Greetings,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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