Intel driver

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Fri Jan 4 08:31:32 PST 2008


On Friday, January 04, 2008 6:55 am Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> just tried your latest driver in users/jbarnes/xf86-video-intel.
>
> It segfaults at startup.
>
> The following patch fixes the segfault (the second junk).
> The first junk is needed as xf86InitialConfiguration zeroes PIPEBCONF
> register for some strange reason. Which means that the driver disables
> PIPEB in LeaveVT.

Thanks for testing, I'll check it out.  PreInit (and xf86InitialConfig) 
shouldn't be permanently modifying video state.  The idea was to get away 
from a RestoreHWState call altogether in that function since it causes 
unnecessary display flicker at startup.

Jesse



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