Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 15:29:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 15:29:40 -0500 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:30468 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 15:29:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:37:08 +0000 (GMT) From: James Simmons To: Sven Luther cc: Antonino Daplas , Linux Fbdev development list , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] FBDev: vga16fb port In-Reply-To: <20021205180314.GA860@iliana> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 761 Lines: 22 > > Not really. When X closes /dev/fb then fb_release is called which if the > > That supposes X is fbdev aware (either using the fbdev driver or the > UseFBDev option), right ? What if X knows nothing about fbdev, it will > try restoring stuff as if it was in text mode. That is what X will try. > > X on VESA fb always foobars my system when I exit X. > > With which driver ? (i am happily running the vesa X driver on top of > vesafb without problems). G400 X server 4.0.2 ontop of VESA framebuffer. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/