On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 08:03:20AM +0800, Tan Wei Chong wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> What exactly happen during a VT switching with say Ctrl-Alt-F2 ?
> I mean how does the Xserver yield all its control over the display device such as 
>its access to frame buffer or overlay to console ?
> Let say I have an application that continue to pump in video frame to the overlay 
>after the VT switch what would happen ?
> I ask this because I'm curious about what happen to my Xv code when the user do a VT 
>switch ?

You should disable/stop/whatever what you are doing to the HW in the
VTLeave code and re-enable it in VTEnter. Normally, the X driver
save/restore the ful HW state during VTEnter/VTLeave.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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