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On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:23:23 +0100 |
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Datty <datty.wtb@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Thanks for the reply, I have looked at the document but unfortunately |
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> I can't use Nouveau because I need 3d so I went for what I could use. |
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> I've dropped uvesafb totally as it was pretty much useless anyway. It |
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> has sort of helped a little, its coming up what seems like more often |
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> than before but its still blanking quite a lot on boot. A few minutes |
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> of switching terminals does eventually bring it up but there doesn't |
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> seem to be any reasoning behind why it does and doesn't work. Nothing |
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> jumps out at me in the log either. |
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Sounds like a race condition between the kernel and the uvesafb driver. |
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Only one of them can control the screen at any given time and console |
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handover is a tricky business (IIRC this was one of the very things that |
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drove the development of KMS). Perhaps every now and then uvesafb just |
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ahppened to grab (or ungrab) the console at just the right time. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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