Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:14:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:14:46 -0500 Received: from zikova.cvut.cz ([147.32.235.100]:8198 "EHLO zikova.cvut.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:14:34 -0500 From: "Petr Vandrovec" Organization: CC CTU Prague To: Pozsar Balazs Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:13:59 MET-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FBdev remains in unusable state CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.40 Message-ID: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12 Dec 01 at 19:49, Pozsar Balazs wrote: > > The video card is a matrox G450, and I am using the vesa framebuffer. > (I know there's a seperate mga fb driver, but this should work for this > combination) No. vesafb does not work together with mga driver in X (although I believe that vesafb works with XFree mga driver, only Matrox driver is binary bad citizen). > Is this a bug in the kernel fb code, or in X? Are there any workarounds? > How could I restore textmode? Neither. X restore R/W registers to their previous values, while write-only registers to their values for normal text mode. Yes, there is a 'workaround'. Use (much faster) matroxfb. Best regards, Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz - 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/