Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Dec 1998 15:24:42 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: short display with 2.1.132-ac3, matroxfb and XF86_SVGA 3.3.3 |
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On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > You cannot and should not mix XFree86 servers (except the frame buffer > console server) with the kernel frame buffer driver. Period.
That's a kernel frame buffer bug as far as I can tell.
If the text console can live together with X messing with the display device, there is no reason why the frame buffer console shouldn't do the same. We already have all the code to serialize the accesses.
Linus
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