On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:48:57PM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was happily using 4.3.0-0pre1v4 on my i830 based laptop and when I
> upgraded to 4.3.0-0pre1v5 VT switching broke.
>
> It is the typical effect descrived by David Dawes in his pages, this is:
> going from X to the text mode vts will make me loose the screen, which
> then, when going back to X will get recovered.
>
> I don't have any way to see the text console with 4.3.0-0pre1v5, only if
> I go back to 4.3.0-0pre1v4 and reboot I can make it work again. This means
> that changing to 4.3.0-0pre1v4 and restarting the server won't fix the text
> mode screen, 4.3.0-0pre1v5 messes up the screen and 4.3.0-0pre1v4 cannot
> undo that, only changing back to 4.3.0-0pre1v4 and rebooting can.
>
> I'm not subscrived to the list, so please Cc me on replies.
You should probably let David Dawes know that the fixes that were
committed to xf-4_3-branch made things worse, not better.
xfree86 (4.3.0-0pre1v5) experimental; urgency=low
* Grab fixes to upstream CVS xf-4_3-branch since last pull.
[...]
+ (xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/i810/{common.h,i810.h,
i810.man,i830.h,i830_cursor.c,i830_dri.c,i830_dri.h,i830_driver.c,
i830_memory.c,i830_video.c}):
Fix some i830+ VT switch/exit crashes (David Dawes, Egbert Eich).
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