On 20 October 2001, Michel D?nzer said:
> No. The way it would work is that the framebuffer device realizes they
> are _currently_ using the same mode so it doesn't have to reinitalize.
OK. I think I get it.
At any rate, I have managed to "minimize VC switch time", which was my
original goal. I can now switch between consoles and X servers with
very little monitor dead time and no mode-switch "click" from my
monitor. All I had to do was use "fbset" to set a mode I like
(1280x1024 @ 75 Hz), and then copy and paste from "fbset -x"'s output to
the "Monitor" section of my XF86Config-4 file. That's neat.
However, setting
UseFBDev "true"
with the "mga" driver has a weird effect. When I first start up an X
server, I get the familiar gray stipple with "X" cursor. When I switch
to another VC and then back to X, the cursor is replaced by a white
64x64 square with a black underscore a few pixels down from the upper
left corner. My guess is that the black underscore is the cursor from
my "text" consoles, and the "few pixels" is the height of the font used
in those consoles.
I never get a normal mouse pointer now; it's always a white 64x64 box,
except in XEmacs where it's grey (XEmacs' background colour).
Is this a known problem? Might it be a bug in the mga driver? This is
the Debian 4.1.0-6 package of XFree86.
Thanks again!
Greg
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