Radeon and Rage 128 VT switch bug finally squashed

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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Thomas Dodd wrote:

>>For new XFree86 packages for Limbo:
>>
>>ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/bleeding-edge
>>
>
>I grabbed the SRPM, and built on a Valhalla system.
>I flipped the switch to build drm, which failed for
>the i810 and i830 drivers. The patch to us udelay() instead
>of a for loop doesn't include <linux/delay.h> which
>defines udelay(). The other drivers which
>use udelay() do include that header.
>Like gamma_dma.c, mga_dma.c, r128_cce.c, and radeon_cp.c.

Weird.  It compiles and runs in RHL.  It wouldn't compile for 
you?

>I haven't tested the build yet.
>I'm also working on installing limbo2 (7.3.93) an a r128 box
>to test it there.
>
>Any known tricks to exercize the VT switch problem on
>a rage 128?

while : ; do sleep 1 ; chvt 1 ; sleep 1 ; chvt 7 ; done

That will continuosuly switch VT's from VT 1 to VT 7.


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