Whether it's safe to run software that isn't frame buffer device aware on a
system using frame buffer devices heavily depends on the graphics hardware and
software.
XF86_SVGA assumes your graphics chipset is in VGA text mode. If this isn't the
case (you're using frame buffer devices), unexpected results may happen. I
don't think fbcon can be blamed for that... Banging the hardware from user
space can be riskful.
> I think it's time I talked. I have been using XFree86 3.3.3 *and*
> fbcon/vesafb/matroxfb for a week now. No problems.
Alex: as the fbdev HOWTO maintainer, you should know better :-)
Greetings,
Geert
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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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