Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e

2007-05-08 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 22:59 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 19:56 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> Checkin 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e "fbdev: ignore VESA > >> modes if framebuffer is disabled" is just plain wrong on any system > >> w

Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e

2007-05-08 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 23:05 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Checkin 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e "fbdev: ignore VESA > > modes if framebuffer is disabled" is just plain wrong on any system > > which has support for extended text modes in its VESA BIOS. > > > > Ant

Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e

2007-05-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 19:56 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Checkin 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e "fbdev: ignore VESA >> modes if framebuffer is disabled" is just plain wrong on any system >> which has support for extended text modes in its VESA BIOS. >> >> An

Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e

2007-05-08 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 19:56 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Checkin 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e "fbdev: ignore VESA > modes if framebuffer is disabled" is just plain wrong on any system > which has support for extended text modes in its VESA BIOS. > > Antonio is incorrectly assuming th

Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e

2007-05-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: I wonder if this fbdev update is what causes my X session to die? Not that particular patch, but yeah, it could certainly be the fbdev update. Can you try bisecting it? Planning to, but not tonight. Jeff - To unsubs

Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e

2007-05-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I wonder if this fbdev update is what causes my X session to die? Not that particular patch, but yeah, it could certainly be the fbdev update. Can you try bisecting it? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e

2007-05-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jeff Garzik wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Checkin 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e "fbdev: ignore VESA >> modes if framebuffer is disabled" is just plain wrong on any system >> which has support for extended text modes in its VESA BIOS. >> >> Antonio is incorrectly assuming this brancho

Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e

2007-05-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Checkin 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e "fbdev: ignore VESA modes if framebuffer is disabled" is just plain wrong on any system which has support for extended text modes in its VESA BIOS. Antonio is incorrectly assuming this branchout is used only to set VESA graph

Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e

2007-05-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Checkin 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e "fbdev: ignore VESA modes if framebuffer is disabled" is just plain wrong on any system which has support for extended text modes in its VESA BIOS. Antonio is incorrectly assuming this branchout is used only to set VESA graphics modes, but it's to s