Bug 2912

Summary: via driver text mode restoration problems
Product: xorg Reporter: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb>
Component: Driver/ViaAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: libv, thomas
Version: 6.8.2   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: OpenBSD   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 5799    
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Description Flags
patch to x86emu none

Description Matthieu Herrb 2005-04-05 14:43:52 UTC 
On OpenBSD with 6.8.2 and HEAD the via driver does not restore the text mode 
correctly on exit or switch to a text console. This appears to be fixed by the
following patch to x86emu by Michael Shalayeff, inspired by a similar change in
XFree86.
Comment 1 Matthieu Herrb 2005-04-05 14:44:49 UTC 
Created attachment 2337 [details] [review]
patch to x86emu
Comment 2 Thomas Hellström 2006-03-09 09:43:06 UTC 
Matthieu, A long time since this was reported. Is the status still the same?
Should we really consider this a via driver bug?

/Thomas
Comment 3 Matthieu Herrb 2006-03-12 01:12:52 UTC 
The problem is not in the VIA driver. It's a bug in x86emu that causes the BIOS
calls to fail on systems that use x86emu for that.
It was fixed in XFree86. To avoid licensing problems, I asked Mickey to look at
the code and design an independant fix.

x86emu is not my area in the X server that's why I submitted this here, and then
more or less forgot about it.

Unfortunatly I can't test it in HEAD on OpenBSD anymore, since the via driver
now requires libdrm installed (and it isn't supported on OpenBSD yet).
Comment 4 Timo Jyrinki 2007-02-22 14:26:21 UTC 
Marking broken (status null/blank) bugs in xorg with no activity in a long time as fixed. Please reopen if you think it's necessary, but first do a search if a similar bug report is already filed and in a NEW/ASSIGNED state. These bugs do not currently show in most search results as they do not have any status.

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