Re: [I810fb-user] X server dying

[Bryan S. <br...@bo...>]

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 08:14:42AM +0800, Antonino Daplas wrote:
>I think you can minimize this problem by letting X finish drawing
>before switching to the console, (ie, if you have mozilla, let it
>finish first.  Not all apps do that though, I know for sure mozilla and
>evolution.  Probably openoffice too). Disabling DRI will also help a
>lot, since it's not really a very nice player.

Would using the 'option UseFBDev' in my XF86Config-4 file help fix this
problem?  Recently on linux-fbdev-devel Geert mentioned that this will
fix some problems using the aty128fb driver...  (See that message below)

Thanks,
Bryan

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 From: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@li...> 
 Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 22:10:53 +0200 (MEST)
 To: Chris Howells <ch...@gm...>
 Cc: Linux Frame Buffer Device Development <lin...@li...>
 Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Possible bug: nasty interaction between framebuffer and DRI/DRM

 On Fri, 31 May 2002, Chris Howells wrote:
 > On Friday 31 May 2002 1:08 pm, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
 > 
 > > Do you use `option UseFBDev' in your XF86Config?
 > 
 > No I'm not. Should I be?

 Yes. Without that option, the X server will change the graphics chip's
 registers behind the back of aty128fb.

 Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                 Geert
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