From: becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:30:35 +0100 (MET)

Re: Possible to rmmod kgicon?

Hi !

> > > Can this be done by modifying kgicon to restore the console
> > > to its original state and release all resources, without any change to the
> > > kernel?  
> > That should be the case. Anyone knows, what the showstopper is here ?

> The fact that once you've mapped consoles to an fbcon driver, you can only
> reassign them to another fbcon driver, not just unmap them.  So on a
> typical kgicon-only system with one card, the kgicon module is always in
> use (unless you play naming tricks). 

Hmm - I tried the naming tricks, but couldn't get it to unload anyway ...

I used the VGA driver, and insmodded it twice, as kgicon and kgicon2.

i tried to map all consoles to kgicon and then tried to remove kgicon2
and vice versa, but it always reported to be busy ...

Anything I do wrong ?


> Anyway, most of the drivers would have to be fixed to restore the card
> state.

They _should_ be fixed.

Cu, ANdy

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= Andreas Beck                    |  Email :  <andreas.beck@ggi-project.org> =