On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 19:32 +0500, Dimitry Naldayev wrote:
> Michel DÃnzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > FWIW, the infamous radeon DRI reinit patch is at
> > http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/DRI/radeon-reinit.diff
> >
> look like it is realy not best way do things right...
> 
> so couple of questions:
> 1) what happens when we do vt switch?

You mean with this patch? If there are no clients using the DRM, the DRI
is de-initialized and re-initialized again on return to the X server.

> 2) what differences between vt switch and context switch from hardware/drm
> point of view?

None, really. Without this patch (and even with it if there are clients
using the DRM), the X server simply holds the hardware lock while
switched away to prevent clients from touching the hardware.


-- 
Earthling Michel DÃnzer      |     Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast    |   http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer


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