[Fwd: Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)]

[Thomas Winischhofer]

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Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> Jon Smirl wrote:
>>>A harder test is start X, modprobe the fbdev driver from an xterm. Now
>>>VT swap to a console session and rmmod the fbdev driver. Everything
>>>should stay working. Try this the other way around too.
> 
> 
> Works, of course.


On second thought: Is this really meant to work?

The fbdev must do some probing, which requires a minimum of
register-fiddling. Also, some cards (especially ones that are secondary
and not initialized by the BIOS) are evetually POSTed, BEFORE fbcon
kicks in and issues a mode-switch.

Doing all that when X is running will lead to problems....

(And using the fbdev as a module is sick anyway, IMHO)

Thomas



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