Regression: radeon x600 text console font not restored

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 07:26:05 PDT 2005


On 9/12/05, Felix Kühling <fxkuehl at gmx.de> wrote:
> I am pretty sure, the culprit is the WITH_VGAHW change from Aug 26. The
> modular build doesn't define that macro yet, so the VGA font restore is
> disabled at compile time. Since the vgahw module seems to be compiled
> unconditionally in the modular build, it's probably safe to define
> WITH_VGAHW unconditionally. I'm just not sure where would be the best
> place. I've added -DWITH_VGAHW to AM_CFLAGS
> in .../xf86-video-ati/src/Makefile.am and that fixes the problem for me.
> 

I just installed the monolith from cvs on my PC and text restoration
is flakey now as well for me (vga console).

Alex

> Regards,
>   Felix
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 06.09.2005, 12:03 -0400 schrieb Felix Kühling:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had the radeon driver from Xorg CVS working ok on my mobile X600 about
> > 4 months ago. I upgraded to current CVS last week and now I have this
> > problem. The font on the text console is not restored on console switch
> > or when I exit the X server. Does anyone have an idea which change may
> > have broken it or give me a quick pointer where to start looking?
> > Otherwise I'll try to narrow it down myself some time this week.
> >
> > I want to start testing Ben's Radeon EXA patches. ;-) But this issue is
> > a no-go for me right now.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >   Felix
> >
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