Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

Pavel Machek
2005-02-17T20:42:47Z

Hi!
> >>4. Include a mandantory description of video bringup after resume
> >
> > That sounds overcomplicated. Simply add this to the specs:
>
> You have to start to think like a vendor with a long legacy. Then my
> spec draft will make more sense. Basically, you can't tell a vendor
> that his hardware is broken or he will ignore your efforts from that
> point on. "It's a question of honour." If, on the other hand, a
> vendor can claim his products are conforming to the spec by issuing
> a software update for broken hardware, it is much more likely that
> the spec gets accepted.

Well, whether you POST video or not is still only
software... anyway...

Your _WAK idea could work for notebooks (but if you did it in _WAK
you'd break windows, so you'd have to call it _VWK (VideoWaK) or
something), but for desktop where user can plug in any video card he
buys... I do not see how you can get away with something other than
normal POST.

> > BIOS must do that during normal boot; this should be very little
> > additional work.
>
> Not necessarily. Some BIOSes stay in graphics mode during the whole
> bootup (at least it seems so) and would have to include additional
> code to enter 80x25 text mode.

??? When grub is launched, you are in 80x25 text mode.
Pavel
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