On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 03:28:52 +0200 Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 09 July 2009, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > [1] I'd even go so far as to feel it should be a standard test > > > case for video driver developers, given that this is the third > > > time it's shown regressions :-) For the third case the bug was in > > > the X.Org i830 driver: > > > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14481. > > > > It might surprise you to learn this, but vesafb has never been > > considered supportable by the X.org community, and you'll notice not > > very many distros ship with it enabled, it breaks suspend/resume on > > many machines for example. > > I beg to disagree. > - Debian does have it enabled by default. > - I have always used it on all my machines without any problems. > - Both my laptops and my desktop suspend and resume perfectly with > vesafb and X.Org. > - Jesse Barnes seems to disagree with you. To quote from the BR cited > above (comment #11): "and you're right, making things work with > vesafb isn't unreasonable". Since my ears are burning I figured I'd better qualify this: I made that statement before we had KMS upstream. Supporting the case where multiple drivers try to bang on the same device has always been a big pain. In a KMS configuration we don't support it at all. > Yes, and I really welcome the great progress being made there. But > for me it's not yet an option as I run Debian stable on these boxes. Sounds like that's not an option for you though... which means debugging where the interaction is going wrong... Jesse -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
