>
> > > 2) The ability to go back to vga text mode on close of /dev/fb.
> > > Yes fbdev/fbcon supports that now.
> >
> > I'll take a stab at writing VGA save/restore routines which hopefully is
> > generic enough to be used by various hardware. No promises though, VGA
> > programming gives me a headache :(
>
> You can pull the code out of the old svgalib library. Since its not
> doing any card specific stuff the generic vga->text restore ought to do
> the right thing.
>
Thanks for the info. I think I'll review this one to see what I missed.
Tony
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