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

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Fri, 1 Jan 1999 11:01:57 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > You cannot and should not mix XFree86 servers (except the frame buffer
> > console server) with the kernel frame buffer driver. Period.
>
> That's a kernel frame buffer bug as far as I can tell.
>
> If the text console can live together with X messing with the display
> device, there is no reason why the frame buffer console shouldn't do the
> same. We already have all the code to serialize the accesses.

It's the other way round: the X server can't live with the frame buffer
console. It can live with the text console only.

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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