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Hello,

On Dec 29, 2007, at 07:02, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 01:11:35PM -0500, Michael Lorenz wrote:
>
>> Switching in and out of X never worked right, shouldn't be enabled at
>> all.
>
> Just for the record - it worked fine in 3.0 with the 1.6 XF86_SVGA.

Yeah, it works with a vga(4) console, it may or may not work with  
framebuffer consoles - some drivers can't really program video modes  
and some XFree86 driver can't be arsed to clean up after themselves  
so some combinations work while others don't. Igsfb with wsfb should  
work though since wsfb doesn't do any video mode programming either.  
All it takes is a #define somewhere in XFree86's bowels, can't  
remember where exactly though.

>> And 16bit mode won't work either unless you have patches rotting
>> in my source tree for a while now.
>> Besides that - weird things may happen if X doesn't start on virtual
>> console 0.
>
> Oh. that is, I should disable getty on ttyE0?

No, just make sure it's started from ttyE0. The problem is that X's  
BSD support code doesn't know which console it's started on and  
always opens /dev/ttyE0 to read keyboard and mouse events ( with the  
keyboard driver at least, kbd uses /dev/wskbd* and /dev/wsmouse* )  
and, more importantly, to mmap() the framebuffer. It will switch  
ttyE0 into framebuffer mode ( essentially shutup console output ) but  
if you're on a different virtual console it doesn't get shut up and  
you may not get input events. Yes, that's a bug in X but apparently  
it's not annoying enough for anyone to fix it, I at least always had  
bigger fish to fry in the past year, and I don't use xdm either, just  
startx from ttyE0 always worked for me :/

have fun
Michael

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