--- Keith Whitwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Gwe, 2004-05-21 at 17:48, Jon Smirl wrote:
> >
> >>There are two types of VTs - text and graphical. It is only practical
> to have a
> >>single graphical VT because of the complexity of state swapping a
> graphical VT
> >>at VT swap.
> >
> >
> > Could have fooled me. I can switch between multiple DRI using X
> servers
> > and text consoles and it works currently. So clearly it is *not* too
> > complex. If you have mode setting there is little else required since
> > you can simply declare it to be the job of the client switched onto,
> to
> > get its data back in order.
>
> The trouble with that is that when a new client comes along and starts
> twiddling some new state that nobody else touched, suddenly you have to
> update
> all the old clients to get them to restore that state.
>
A perfect example of this is the fglx driver :( However These cards are
farely static, so it should be posible to clear out all the state that
could ever be set. At least to find out what state fglx uses and clear
that, also gatos has some state too.
> Keith
>
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