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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
