Re: xsrc/40322 (netbsd-5: xorg destroys console)

[Rafal Boni <rafal%pobox.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR xsrc/40322; it has been noted by GNATS.

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Subject: Re: xsrc/40322 (netbsd-5: xorg destroys console)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 23:05:00 -0400

 On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 02:15:05AM +0000, Matthew Mondor wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR xsrc/40322; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: xsrc/40322 (netbsd-5: xorg destroys console)
 > Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:18:30 -0400
 > 
 >  I just looked now and it seems that the radeon driver doesn't have this
 >  VGAHW support.  I'm not sure if the solution would be to also include
 >  support for this in it or if a more general solution can be found.
 >  Should VGA be reset for all drivers in the case of i386?  If so, this
 >  code could probably be from the ATI drivers to another location...
 
 I think the radeon / ati driver picks up VGAHW support via a #define in
 xorg-server.h which is included from it's local config.h
 
 I've tested the radeon driver with a radeon 9200 agp and while it still has
 the 'dark font on console restore' issue that the r128 driver also has in
 non-16-bpp modes (I've been meaning to look at this in more depth at some
 point, but haven't gotten the round-tuits), but otherwise restore VGA mode
 fine.
 
 To your latter point, I think Jared McNeill has convinced me that The Right
 Thing is to make the vga(4) driver restore proper text mode settings when
 it gets control from the X server again.. but again, I haven't had the time
 to look at this.  Certainly Linux takes this path (hence the wealth of text-
 mode restore bugs resulting from "All the world's a Linux" mindset ;)) and
 I've been told that OpeBSD does as well, so there's likely code there we can
 steal.  I won't preach further until I have something to show off ;)
 
 --rafal
 
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