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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: blank consoles after X starts
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:28:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <g6la4q$6jl$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28da1bb0807270242u526b8f02gbce2e50bca0fd161@mail.gmail.com>

Jorge Martínez López wrote:
> uvesafb was working perfectly for me, without any delays at boot. It
> has been included in the mainline kernel and it seems to be "The Way
> to Go" (TM).

I stumbled upon a new development on X.Org: Kernel Mode Setting.  I 
think that "The Way to Go" will be using the same driver for the 
framebuffer console as well as X.

http://www.x.org/wiki/ModeSetting
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=kernel_modesetting&num=1

Hopefully we'll see this sooner rather than later.  It would mean 100% 
thorough and *instant* VT switching.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-28 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-26 23:37 [gentoo-user] blank consoles after X starts William Kenworthy
2008-07-27  0:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-27  2:19   ` William Kenworthy
2008-07-27  2:50     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-27  6:30       ` Jorge Martínez López
2008-07-27  7:08         ` Jorge Martínez López
2008-07-27  7:43           ` Jorge Martínez López
2008-07-27  7:58           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-27  9:42             ` Jorge Martínez López
2008-07-27 10:15               ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-27 10:24               ` William Kenworthy
2008-07-28 20:28               ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2008-07-29 14:05                 ` Jorge Martínez López

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