Some issues to resolve with XFree 4.0 yet

Michael Schmitz schmitz at opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de
Fri Mar 24 19:58:46 EST 2000


> > Any ideas here?  Do we need something like an engine reset or flush in
> > aty128fb_set_var?
>
> No, when !(accel_flags & ACCELF_TEXT), aty128fb must not touch the accel
> engine, and accel engine has to be done by the application (i.e. the X server).
> Only if (accel_flags & ACCELF_TEXT), aty128fb has to set up the accel engine.

And the X server does clear that bit in accel_flags (see the fbdevhw
mmap_mmio function) when taking over the console, hence the X server
should handle the engine reset/flush. XFree bug.

	Michael


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