From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 18:15:19 +1000

Re: LibGGI buglets

The continuing saga...

>  Firstly all LibGGI programs on the display-fbdev target are segfaulting
>  at exit.  No core dump (I assume the cleanup code catches it).  I
>  haven't investigated it yet, any ideas ?  Libc5 system here.

This one was easy to find: display/fbdev/mode.c, resetmode(), in
particular the line:

    ioctl(LIBGGI_FD(vis), FBIOPAN_DISPLAY, &priv->orig_var)

There's nothing wrong with that, so I think this is a VESAFB bug in
early kernels (like mine: 2.1.126) (I recall VESAFB having problems with
FBIOPAN_DISPLAY before).

No real solution I think (I doubt the problem still exists in recent
kernels), apart from "comment out that line..." which I've done and it
works fine now.

Cheers,
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