Re: FBdev remains in unusable state

[Petr Vandrovec]

On 12 Dec 01 at 19:49, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> 
> The video card is a matrox G450, and I am using the vesa framebuffer.
> (I know there's a seperate mga fb driver, but this should work for this
> combination)

No. vesafb does not work together with mga driver in X (although
I believe that vesafb works with XFree mga driver, only Matrox driver
is binary bad citizen).
 
> Is this a bug in the kernel fb code, or in X? Are there any workarounds?
> How could I restore textmode?

Neither. X restore R/W registers to their previous values, while write-only
registers to their values for normal text mode. Yes, there is a 
'workaround'. Use (much faster) matroxfb.
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                                                        Petr Vandrovec
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