On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:46:23PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote:
> >>>>> "m" == Michael  <macallan18@earthlink.net> writes:
> 
>      m> telling the driver that a panic happened so it can do
>      m> a forced switch.
> 
> yeah, I was not imagining any switching involved.  I was imagining
> rather wscons would adapt to whatever mode XF86 had configured.
> 
>      m> - the Xserver never switches video modes so nobody needs to
>      m> force anything back,
> 
> yeah, it would be nice if XFree86 could work that way.  I understand
> XFree86 needs direct access to the chip for acceleration or whatever,
> but couldn't the mode-switching part be:
> 
>  1. ripped out or disabled and
>     a. replaced with a VESA modeswitcher
>     b. replaced with non-XFree86 chip-specific modeswitchers like
>        machfb

I think XFree86 can work that way. Some drivers have a "UseFBDev" option,
which makes the driver use the OS interface (fbdev) on Linux for mode
switching, if I understand it correctly.

Pavel Cahyna