Re: Questions about vbestate

[Matthew Garrett <mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>]

On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 12:05 +0100, Stefan Dösinger wrote:

> Is it possible to reset the whole video memory with vbetool? I mean, if we 
> reset the graphics processor when posting the card, we should also clean up 
> the garbage in the video memory. The content in my card's memory survives a 
> card reboot, a suspend-to-ram cycle and even a system reboot. Under certain 
> circumstances this crashes both fglrx and the open source radeon driver.

That's likely to be caused by held-over internal chip state, rather than
video memory. Whether or not vbetool can do anything about that depends
on the video BIOS, really - the state saving/restore /ought/ to deal
with that, but there's no guarantee.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org



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