Re: Problem restoring console?

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, David Dawes wrote:

> 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?

   It worked fine with 4.4.  I built sometime after 4.4 but I'm
not sure when.


>
> 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.


    What OS are you on?  It could be something specific to Linux
console/vt.


		Mark.