Re: vgacon fixes to help font restauration in X11

2005-01-18 Thread Egbert Eich
Alan Cox writes: > On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 14:29, Egbert Eich wrote: > > OK, sounds promising. The changed Xserver pieces are in HEAD of the > > X.Org tree. I'll see that I make the necessary adjustments to have > > a soft detection if you can give me a version number of the kernel > > which wi

Re: vgacon fixes to help font restauration in X11

2005-01-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 14:29, Egbert Eich wrote: > OK, sounds promising. The changed Xserver pieces are in HEAD of the > X.Org tree. I'll see that I make the necessary adjustments to have > a soft detection if you can give me a version number of the kernel > which will have the new features. Send

Re: vgacon fixes to help font restauration in X11

2005-01-17 Thread Egbert Eich
Alan Cox writes: > On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 09:07, Egbert Eich wrote: > > Can you point me to these reports? > > I tested with a couple chipsets here and didn't find any problems. > > I'll take a dig. The ones I've got are for 2.4 so relate to old code. > > > We could check for the kernel ver

Re: vgacon fixes to help font restauration in X11

2005-01-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 09:07, Egbert Eich wrote: > Can you point me to these reports? > I tested with a couple chipsets here and didn't find any problems. I'll take a dig. The ones I've got are for 2.4 so relate to old code. > We could check for the kernel version. This could be done during build

Re: vgacon fixes to help font restauration in X11

2005-01-17 Thread Egbert Eich
[Please leave me in Cc: as I'm not subscribed to this list] Alan Cox writes: > On Maw, 2005-01-11 at 14:28, Egbert Eich wrote: > > I'm fully aware that in the long run we will need to look into a new > > driver model for graphics where no two instances fight over who gets > > register access.