From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:06:36 +0000 Message-ID: <1108069596.4085.78.camel@tyrosine> References: <1107695583.14847.167.camel@localhost.localdomain> <420BB267.8060108@tmr.com> <20050210192554.GA15726@sci.fi> <1108066096.4085.69.camel@tyrosine> <9e473391050210121756874a84@mail.gmail.com> <1108067388.4085.74.camel@tyrosine> <9e47339105021012341c94c441@mail.gmail.com> <420BC814.4050102@scitechsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <420BC814.4050102-uto6oM0aG36m1FQbPH9wZw@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: Kendall Bennett Cc: Jon Smirl , Ville =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Syrj=E4l=E4?= , Bill Davidsen , Alan Cox , Pavel Machek , 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 12:46 -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: > So perhaps this problem is something similar? I don't think so - if I dd out of ROM, I get something that looks like a video BIOS (and, indeed, I can make VBE calls to and from it). The problem is jumping to c000:0003 and executing - this has the effect of turning off the backlight and giving an illegal instruction error (I /think/ - I may be getting the machine I have here confused with one a tester has...) -- 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