On Sam, 2002-10-19 at 14:12, David Dawes wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:04:43PM +0200, Charl P. Botha wrote: > > >PS As things have been explained in this thread, it seems that X should not > >make any assumptions about hardware state when returning from VT. Would > >this mean that all Radeon (e.g.) hardware setup will have to be re-performed > >(e.g. re-installing the GPU microcode, performing all register outputs for > >setting up AGP, etc) after switching back from VT? If this is the case, > > Yes. Suppose something else that ran in the meantime installed different > microcode, or made other changes to the HW state?
Right, nice argument for my DRI reinit patch and/or Charl's resume patch. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
