From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Questions about vbestate Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:10:47 +0000 Message-ID: <1106399447.30227.26.camel@tyrosine> References: <200501181912.19644.stefandoesinger@gmx.at> <1106096142.7368.32.camel@tyrosine> <200501221205.40179.stefandoesinger@gmx.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200501221205.40179.stefandoesinger-RbZlAiThDcE@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 12:05 +0100, Stefan D=C3=B6singer wrote: > Is it possible to reset the whole video memory with vbetool? I mean, if w= e=20 > reset the graphics processor when posting the card, we should also clean = up=20 > the garbage in the video memory. The content in my card's memory survives= a=20 > card reboot, a suspend-to-ram cycle and even a system reboot. Under certa= in=20 > 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. --=20 Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------- 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