On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Marc Aurele La France wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Mark Vojkovich wrote:

> >    It looks to me like maybe the vid mode extension allows
> > switching modes while switched away?  I had a bug report that
> > VT switching while playing a certain game (Sid Meier's Alpha
> > Centauri) that uses the vidmode extension causes the server
> > to SIGV.  This is with the "nv" driver.

> >     Should VidModeSwitchMode be doing all this when switched
> > away?

> Certainly not.  There're other things here too, like VidModeSwitchMode()
> using its own copy of xf86ZoomViewport(), consequently ignoring DGA and
> such.

> I'll take care of this.

Try the attached.

Thanks.

Marc.

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