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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Re: LCD does not wake up (problem found)
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:08:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1113131295.14234.70.camel@tyrosine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050410084357.GA25407-kdZ+H/N/Ve2ELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>

On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 10:43 +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> Ok, 
> 
> I found the problem and the solution. The problem is mentioned
> on http://www.thinkwiki.org/How_to_make_ACPI_work, it's a kernel 
> bug. 

It's not a kernel bug. Most hardware needs the video to be
reinitialised. s3_bios is one way of attempting to do that, and it works
on some hardware. On other hardware, it crashes the machine.

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



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      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-10 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-10  8:31 LCD does not wake up Hadmut Danisch
     [not found] ` <20050410083144.GA21389-kdZ+H/N/Ve2ELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>
2005-04-10  8:43   ` Re: LCD does not wake up (problem found) Hadmut Danisch
     [not found]     ` <20050410084357.GA25407-kdZ+H/N/Ve2ELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>
2005-04-10  9:39       ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2005-04-10 11:08       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]

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