Hi!
Here is a new version of my vga patch. I now have it where you go from
vgacon to fbcon to vgacon again. I have tried this with the vga16fb
driver and it works very well. It needs a little work for a better
vgacon restore mode. Vgacon can even restore the fonts itself :-)
I tested it with the matrox framebufer with less luck. I assume I'm not
freeing resources properly. I will test it with other fbdev drivers next
week. Thank you.
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:28:02PM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Here is a new version of my vga patch. I now have it where you go from
> vgacon to fbcon to vgacon again. I have tried this with the vga16fb
> driver and it works very well. It needs a little work for a better
> vgacon restore mode. Vgacon can even restore the fonts itself :-)
> I tested it with the matrox framebufer with less luck. I assume I'm not
> freeing resources properly. I will test it with other fbdev drivers next
> week. Thank you.
Matroxfb does not switch hardware to VGA mode on exit. Try doing
'fbset -depth 0 -a' before quitting from matroxfb.
Petr Vandrovec
[email protected]
> Matroxfb does not switch hardware to VGA mode on exit. Try doing
> 'fbset -depth 0 -a' before quitting from matroxfb.
I know. I wanted for vgacon to reset the video mode itself. This way ANY
fbdev driver can go back top vgacon.
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, James Simmons wrote:
> > Matroxfb does not switch hardware to VGA mode on exit. Try doing
> > 'fbset -depth 0 -a' before quitting from matroxfb.
>
> I know. I wanted for vgacon to reset the video mode itself. This way ANY
> fbdev driver can go back top vgacon.
That won't be possible because returning to VGA text mode is chip-specific.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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> > I know. I wanted for vgacon to reset the video mode itself. This way ANY
> > fbdev driver can go back top vgacon.
>
> That won't be possible because returning to VGA text mode is chip-specific.
>From what I see in the XF4.0 tree you can. I will find out today with me
working on the tdfx driver.