On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > Guennadi Liakhovetski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > Worked on 2.6.10-rc2. With 2.6.11 during boot upon switching to fb, text > > becomes orange, penguins look sick (not sharp). X starts and runs normal > > (doesn't use fb), switching to vt not possible any more. Disabling > > fb-console in kernel config fixes VTs. Reverting pm2fb.c fixes the > > problem. > > Guennadi, could you please confirm that > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc1/2.6.12-rc1-mm1/broken-out/pm2fb-x-and-vt-switching-crash-fix.patch > > fixes this one?
As discussed with Jim on linux-fbdev-devel this patch fixes the vt / X switching problem. We still don't know why starting with 2.4.11 I have to switch CONFIG_FB_PM2_FIFO_DISCONNECT off to restore colours / images. Jim says it is doubtful that this option brings any optimisations at all, still, it is a bit worrying, that something that worked with earlier kernels stopped working now. I traced this breakage down to the patch to pm2fb.c after 2.6.10-rc2. Jim wanted to try to reproduce this problem with my fb-geometry / colour settings, but I haven't heard from him since then, Jim? Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
