Re: Problem restoring console?

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 07:40:40PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, David Dawes wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:00:18PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>> > >   I just updated on my dual-card system and with the update I see
>> > >a problem restoring the console that I did not see previously.  If
>> > >I startx on the primary card and then quit, the primary card is restored
>> > >correctly.  However, if I startx on both cards and quit, the
>> > >primary card is not restored correctly.  I have a hard time imagining
>> > >how it could be a driver issue since the "nv" driver knows nothing about
>> > >the other cards in the layout (nor should it) and does not change
>> > >its behavior when there is more than one card in the layout.  The
>> > >core server code, on the other hand, does.
>> > >
>> > >   Have there been changes to vgahw, RAC, PCI config code, console
>> > >code, etc... that may have caused this regression?
>> >
>> > Do you know approximately when this problem started?
>>
>>   I haven't updated in a long time on that machine.  I'll try to
>> figure out when, but I'm not sure how to do that reliably.
>
>   I can't tell when I last updated on this machine.

Can you go back to 4.4 as a first step, or do you know it was post-4.4?

I tried 4.5.0 RC1 with a multi-head config using a Mach64 and i810,
and didn't see any problem like this.  I can try some other multi-head
configs later this week.

David