keithp wrote: > Excerpts from Matt Turner's message of Sun Nov 01 12:22:44 -0800 2009: >> I couldn't find any version of the X xserver that ever used lnx_font.c >> so let's delete it. I tried contacting its author, Egbert, multiple >> times on IRC and email [*] but never got any response. It also hasn't >> been seriously touched since January 2005. > > The only reference I've found to this is an ubuntu bug: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/105822 > > which seems to have conflicting reports about what this is good > for. I'm of the opinion that the graphics driver should be responsible > for returning the card to its original state (and hence the X server > shouldn't be doing anything with console fonts). It would be nice to > know whether there are drivers which aren't successfully restoring the > entire console font though, and for whom a helper function of this > sort would be useful. > > Daniels reportedly commented that this code would break multi-card > uses, although I'm not entirely sure why that would be the case, > unless that referred to multi-seat instead.
hummm I've never seen any not-so-much-recently driver doing such console font saving, specially for multiseat setups. Reviewed-by: Tiago Vignatti <[email protected]> Tiago _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
