dog wrote: > additionally, i find that when the display blanks (using the fbdev driver, > of course) i lose the console totally and can't regain it by any means other > than rebooting the machine.
Do you mean the bug that it blanks the screen even when you're in console? You should be able to get the display back by switching back to X and having it unblank. > one thing i don't understand is why, when the fbdev driver uses the > "default" mode, it *still* queries the framebuffer and then sets it > explicitly. if it just reused the existing settings, for instance, i could > use offb (which is readonly and doesn't support being set explicitly) to run > x. It has to query the framebuffer device to fake an XFree86 mode which is then used like a user- or pre-defined mode (thus the mode setting). It should work with offb though, all it really needs there is the resolution and depth/bpp which even offb should report correctly. Or doesn't offb just ignore mode settings? Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
