Regression: radeon x600 text console font not restored

[Thomas Winischhofer]

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Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 September 2005 12:03, Felix Kühling wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I had the radeon driver from Xorg CVS working ok on my mobile X600 about
>>4 months ago. I upgraded to current CVS last week and now I have this
>>problem. The font on the text console is not restored on console switch
>>or when I exit the X server. Does anyone have an idea which change may
>>have broken it or give me a quick pointer where to start looking?
>>Otherwise I'll try to narrow it down myself some time this week.
> 
> 
> Egbert changed console font restoration a while ago to let the kernel do the 
> restore if it can.  However, some kernels have broken font restore, 
> particularly radeonfb (i think) somewhere in the 2.6.11+ timeframe (i also 
> think).  Try an older, or newer, kernel.

I don't really see why font-restoration should be a problem if a
framebuffer driver is active. Opposed to VGA text mode, the fonts aren't
stored in video memory...

Thomas

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