On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:57:14AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 18:38 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> Once more, your "F1 fetish" to me is a silly, avoidable change, whose > >> only feature it is to break documentations, habits and to add further > >> hassle. A completely superfluous change. > > > > As noted multiple times on this thread, the change prevents the > > multi-second monitor refresh issues when mode is changed by vt switches. > > The flicker / resync delay comes from the *mode switch*, not the *vt > switch*. And, no, a vt switch does *not* imply a mode switch. vt switching implies a screen repaint, which will cause a visible visual artifact. You're correct that in the kms world that doesn't imply a mode switch, but that's not really the point. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
