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fbcon_switch has to be rewritten. I'm going threw the process of cleaning
up the upper fbcon layer. Its such a mess. Yuck!!!

Thank goodness for this :)  I was already thinking of adding an 'Option
Usefbdev' for the xfree86 driver.

There is already a option like that for XFree86.

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Yes!!! Of course there is the issue is the framebuffer that actual one
used for vgacon or is it independent, thinking multihead here.

I was trying to confirm if vgacon should restore its own state or not.

But this one is neat :)  I added VGA save/restore state routines to
fb_open() and fb_release().  I was able to boot to a VGA console, fired
up XFBDev and DirectFB and exited back again to a VGA console.  DirectFB
came back without problems, XFBDev needed a console reset.

WOW!!! That is way to awesome. I have always wanted to see that actually
work.

I guess the save/restore state routines will only be needed for graphics
card with a VGA core.  I think multiple graphics card or multi-head
systems will not be affected since the driver will only be
saving/restoring its own hardware anyway.

Correct. One thing I do like is when you insmod a driver it doesn't change
the mode. For example for the neomagic fbdev driver I compiled as a module
and then insmod while using vgacon. Its didn't change the graphics mode so
I was able to find a nasty bug. I could change the video mode once I did a
set_var via userland.

config FONT_8x16
	bool "VGA 8x16 font" if FBCON_FONTS
	depends on FB && SGI_NEWPORT_CONSOLE=y

I changed the '&&' operator to '||' in my case.

Applied.

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5.  The cfb_* drawing functions still behave erratically, especially in
emacs.  Geert has made some versions that work correctly for me.  This
was discussed in a thread sometimes ago.

Where are the patchs. I like to incorporate them into BK.

The patch exceeded 40K uncompressed, so here's a link:

http://i810fb.sourceforge.net/draw_ops.diff.gz

The diff is against 2.5.45 plus your fbdev.diff.

It didn't work. Can you send me those files direct. I like to apply them.




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