Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756179AbYHHJc2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 05:32:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752890AbYHHJcT (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 05:32:19 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:45359 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752763AbYHHJcS (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 05:32:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] VT: Restore VT fonts on switch From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080721214025.32bb2629@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20080721214025.32bb2629@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:32:04 +1000 Message-Id: <1218187924.24157.338.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 699 Lines: 20 On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 21:40 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:39:44 -0400 > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Not all X drivers save and restore fonts on text VTs. Add code to the > > kernel to explicitly save and restore them on VT switches. > > Please explain why this cannot be done by HAL. To give you a chance to see the console messages during resume in case something goes wrong before HAL kicks in ? :-) Ben. -- 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/