From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon)) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:24:56 +0000 Message-ID: <1107782696.8575.72.camel@tyrosine> References: <420217DB.709@gmx.net> <4202A972.1070003@gmx.net> <20050203225410.GB1110@elf.ucw.cz> <1107474198.5727.9.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <4202DF7B.2000506@gmx.net> <1107485504.5727.35.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <9e4733910502032318460f2c0c@mail.gmail.com> <20050204074454.GB1086@elf.ucw.cz> <9e473391050204093837bc50d3@mail.gmail.com> <20050205093550.GC1158@elf.ucw.cz> <1107695583.14847.167.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <1107695583.14847.167.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Pavel Machek , Jon Smirl , ncunningham@linuxmail.org, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , ACPI List , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 16:02 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > Some systems (intel notably) appear to expect you to use the bios > save/restore video state not re-POST. This works well in many cases, but there are some machines that freeze if you attempt to make a VBE state save call. Sadly, I don't have any access to an affected machine, so it's a bit awkward working out what the problem is. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org