On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 15:17:15 +0200, Jeroen N. Witmond [Bahco] wrote: > On Sun, September 11, 2011 14:56, "Guillem Jover" <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > > Given your explanation I don't see how libsvga1 is involved here. It > > seems to me this is just a Linux kernel issue if using KMS, or a X > > server issue. In that either of them cannot restore the video card > > to the previous text mode. > > I'm sorry, but I don't know what KMS is. I cannot find any packages in > oldstable (lenny) whose names contain 'KMS'.
KMS is Kernel Mode Setting, present in newer kernels, starting from Linux 2.6.28 depending on the graphics card, but mostly Intel GMA, ATI Radeon and NVIDIA cards. It allows the kernel itself to switch graphics modes instead of delegating the work to random user space applications. > If there is no KMS in lenny, could you please reassign this bugreport to > the X server package? If there is a KMS in lenny, could you please > explain what it is, or provide a reference to it? It also depends on what drivers are you using on the kernel and X sides, for example if you are using a framebuffer kernel module and the fbdev X driver then that'd be (most probably) a kernel issue, if you are using the X VESA drivers that'd be an X issue. In general it would help if you included the kernel and X versions, and which graphics drivers you are currently using. But then you are using oldstable, and if the bug is not really serious then it will not be fixed there, I think you'd be better off upgrading to the current stable which should have better hardware support. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
