From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon)) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:08:15 +0000 Message-ID: <1108066096.4085.69.camel@tyrosine> References: <1107695583.14847.167.camel@localhost.localdomain> <420BB267.8060108@tmr.com> <20050210192554.GA15726@sci.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <20050210192554.GA15726-ORSVBvAovxo@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: Ville =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Syrj=E4l=E4?= Cc: Bill Davidsen , Alan Cox , Pavel Machek , Jon Smirl , ncunningham-jjFNsPSvq+iXDw4h08c5KA@public.gmane.org, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , ACPI List , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 21:25 +0200, Ville Syrj=C3=A4l=C3=A4 wrote: > BTW it seems that old ATI cards use the BIOS to initialize secondary=20 > adapters even under Windows. > See http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/3663.html. It also explicitly states that Windows 2000 and XP don't support this, which leads me to suspect that vendors no longer expect POSTing to be possible after initial system boot. --=20 Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click