[Xorg-driver-geode] switching consoles with GeodeLX

Martin-Éric Racine q-funk at iki.fi
Fri Feb 1 03:39:59 PST 2008


On 2/1/08, Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse at amd.com> wrote:
> On 31/01/08 22:38 -0500, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> > As many have reported, we have issues with switching back to console
> > mode after running X.
> >
> > I've enabled some debug flags in xorg-core 1.3 (Gutsy) and am running
> > tests with the 2.7.7.6 driver.
> >
> > After pushing Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace, I got this in the logs...
> >
> >   c000:0282: A2 ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE!
> >
> > ... which is generated by x86emuOp2_illegal_op() in the x86emu code.
> > This function is used to denote unused opcodes.
>
> Guhh.  This is GSW again, right?  Whats up with that video BIOS?
> I haven't seen this on Insyde in the past, but I haven't tested it
> recently.

It also used to work fine on GSW, until X switched from vm86 to x86emu.

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