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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
>  It changes video mode to get the hardware into a known or roughly
> known state. Linear framebuffer is a bit of an assumption both at the
> low end (windowed) and high end (no framebuffer or tiled)

We shouldn't _assume_ it. XFree86 should tell us. And it can tell us about 
the other cases too; some of those we can deal with anyway.

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dwmw2


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