[PATCH 0/2] Move VT check from fb to exa

[Adam Jackson]

On Mon, 2017-09-11 at 11:45 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> Emmanuel Gil Peyrot <emmanuel.peyrot at collabora.com> writes:
> 
> > This effectively fixes screenshotting in Xwayland without GLAMOR, which
> > was previously always hitting that check since the borderClip was never
> > set to a non-zero area.
> 
> We chatted about this issue on IRC this morning. The essential issue is
> that on systems without KMS, the X server cannot touch the video card
> when its VT is not active. That's independent of what rendering code is
> running. I agree that this check probably shouldn't be in fb, but I'm
> not sure where else we can stick it at this point?

The reason I suggested moving it to exa is that it's the one remaining
in-tree renderer that has that problem.

- ajax