Regression: radeon x600 text console font not restored

Thomas Winischhofer thomas at winischhofer.net
Wed Sep 7 01:51:37 PDT 2005


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

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

- --
Thomas Winischhofer
Vienna/Austria
thomas AT winischhofer DOT net	       *** http://www.winischhofer.net

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFDHqoYzydIRAktyUcRAtquAKCojHLLKQJkzaqR/XqeJWLkp8LTuQCeMrLm
ue6hDz6Jx+J/5p3gINNjTUo=
=FZFw
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----



More information about the xorg mailing list