vesa driver doesn't reset completely?

2003-12-06 Thread Harald Nordgård-Hansen
Hi. I've been testing 4.3.99.901 and current HEAD a bit for an embedded thing I'm working on. And I've noticed something strange: When using the vesa driver, the server doesn't completely reset the graphics adapter on server exit, no text is visible on the screen until after a VT switch. This

via driver text drawing errors.

2003-12-06 Thread Harald Nordgård-Hansen
Another testing report here: Running 4.3.99.901 with the via driver on a Via CLE266 (600MHz Epia-M), I've found severe text drawing errors. Whole strings seems to draw mostly correctly, while single characters go missing. At low resolutions there are also severe screen corruption in a band down

chown /dev/tty0

2003-12-06 Thread Andrew Bevitt
Hello, Ive been looking into how the Xserver chown's terminals. I cannot work out though why the server chowns /dev/tty0 to the user:group of the current user who started the process. Ive done some testing on what happens if this is not done, and have not experienced any difficulties. So is

Re: place internet call from your telephone line

2003-12-06 Thread cendd
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Re: patch for a crash in x86 emulator

2003-12-06 Thread Sergey Babkin
David Dawes wrote: return not NULL pointer but a valid pointer to some trash value, so that their caller would be able to reference it without crashing before the interpreter has a chance to halt. Yes, that is a problem. The INTR_HALTED flag isn't tested until too late. The potential problem

Configuration file

2003-12-06 Thread swivel
Hello fellow developers, I was just wondering if there are any plans in a future release to change the XFree86 configuration to XML? Regards, Vito Caputo For those who are curious: I only ask because I am working on an 'embedded' (automotive pc/dash/gauges) project which utilizes XML heavily