Re: [I810fb-user] X server dying

[Antonino D. <ad...@po...>]

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 01:56, Bryan Stillwell wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 08:39:32PM +0800, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> >The main problem is that the XFree86 i810 driver does not invalidate
> >its accel functions when it is out of context.  Empirically, we can see
> >that X is still using accel even when switched to the console.  It's
> >just not correct behavior.
> 
> Ok, that makes sense to me.
> 
> 
> >If you're up to recompiling X, here's a patch that will do just that,
> >invalidate and revalidate the i810 accel engine when switching to and
> >from the console.  The patch is for vanilla XFree86-4.2.0.  If you have
> >a different version, let me know, and I'll send you an appropriate
> >diff.  Tell me also if you used one of my XFree86 patches.
> 
> I'm in the process of my second compile.  The first failed since there
> was a missing a semicolon at the end of one of the lines in the patch.
Oops, sorry about that :)

> I'll mail the list later today on whether or not it succeeded or failed.
> If it does work, would it be alright if I asked the Debian X package
> maintainer (Branden Robinson) to apply it to his Woody packages?  Or
> would one of your other XFree86 patches be better to use?
That patch is fine since the other patches do not fix the problem.  If
Branden (or anyone) is willing to accept the changes, go ahead.

Tony