Re: [lkml]Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-15 Thread James Simmons
>Agreed. The only thing I was thinking, was if the kernel is doing the >right thing now, it shouldn't be forced to work around a bug in XFree. >By not "fixing" the kernel, the XFree team would be forced to do the >right thing. Ha Ha Ha. That is funny. Okay it does get fixed many many months lat

Re: [lkml]Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-12 Thread Chris Meadors
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Of course, but if we can fix the problem by making the kernel smaller, > what possible motive could you have for opposing it other than 'but it > doesn't solve _my_ problems!' ? Agreed. The only thing I was thinking, was if the kernel is doing the

Re: [lkml]Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-12 Thread thunder7
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 09:28:44AM -0400, Chris Meadors wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Rafael E. Herrera wrote: > > If the problem occurs whithout the frame buffer on, the problem seems to > > be on the X server. > > Exactly. That is what I'm saying. I've seen the problem with the > returning to

Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-12 Thread Chris Meadors
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Rafael E. Herrera wrote: > > But only users using matroxfb complains to me and/or to linux-kernel ;-) > > You know, it worked last week, but it does not work anymore today. And > > only thing I changed was kernel. So it must be in kernel... I thought I had seen at least one

Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-12 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > On 11 Apr 01 at 14:55, Chris Meadors wrote: > > > > I would like to see this fixed as much as anyone (even complained to the > > XFree people from SuSE last ALS). But I don't think the fix should be in > > the kernel. XF4 needs to be fixed. The problem doesn't just ef

Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-12 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 11 Apr 01 at 14:55, Chris Meadors wrote: > > I would like to see this fixed as much as anyone (even complained to the > XFree people from SuSE last ALS). But I don't think the fix should be in > the kernel. XF4 needs to be fixed. The problem doesn't just effect the > maxtroxfb, but also the

Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-11 Thread Chris Meadors
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > Hi, >Alan, Linus, please apply this patch to matroxfb. It fixes complaints > from people that screen is black after they exit from X back to console. > Matrox driver does not know that it should return hardware state back to > initial state after s

[PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-11 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Hi, Alan, Linus, please apply this patch to matroxfb. It fixes complaints from people that screen is black after they exit from X back to console. Matrox driver does not know that it should return hardware state back to initial state after switch, but matroxfb relies on that (XF3 did that...).