Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [RFC] fbdev & power management

Geert Uytterhoeven (geert@linux-m68k.org)
Thu, 15 Mar 2001 13:03:35 +0100 (MET)

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> One problem I have is that my fbdev sleep routine will restore the mode
> on wakeup,
> but that of course doesn't work with X when not using useFBDev as fbdev
> have no
> knowledge of the current mode or register settings used by X.

That's a bug in X: one must not change the video mode by banging the hardware
when running on a fbdev system.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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