Subject: Re: Video driver bug

From: Samuel Rydh <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 01:34:31 +0200

On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 01:50:49PM -0500, Takashi Oe wrote:
>
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> > > This problem is observable if one starts MOL from the console. MOL
> > > changes the video mode on an inactive console in order to extract
> > > certain video mode parameters (like rowbytes).
>
> Is there anything wrong with using FB_ACTIVATE_TEST flag for this usage?
> With the flag, you get a legal var and active fb is untouched.
>

Well, using the FB_ACTIVATE_TEST only tells me whether a particular
mode is acceptable or not. I need the information encoded in the
fix structure which is only available for the active mode.

/Samuel

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