Philip Blundell writes:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nicholas Clark writes:
> >I believe that there's also effectively a switch into graphics mode for
> >the mode "default" where the state of text acceleration is ignored.
> >Should xfree turn it off, as it's about to use the screen for graphics?
>
> Dunno. Suggest you ask on the xpert mailing list.
Of course Xfree should turn off text acceleration. You're in graphics mode,
not text mode. You _need_ to turn off acceleration to map the framebuffer
MMIO regions anyway. It is X's responsibility to tell the kernel its
intentions, not for the kernel to guess X's intentions.
Any other suggestion is just plain stupidity and down right madness.
Of course, if you're using the character-based X server then it would be
reasonable to leave text acceleration turned on. (yes, one did exist a
while ago on x86).
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