Re: total freeze with framebuffer + X
Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:11:58 -0500
On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 04:57:14PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> X11
> ===
>
> XF68_FBDev should work just fine, but it is non-accelerated. Running
> another (accelerated) X-Server like XF86_SVGA might or might not work.
> It depends on X-Server and graphics board.
>
> The X-Server must restore the video mode correctly, else you end up
> with a broken console (and vesafb cannot do anything about this).
>
> the above is from Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
>
drat! Why should I have to read the vesafb FAQ when I'm not even using it...
Sorry, I just grepped framebuffer.txt.
-- arvind
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