From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maik Broemme Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Recent Lenovo ThinkPads define a dummy grahpics device, find it and ignore it Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:09:20 +0200 Message-ID: <20071016180919.GH7262@bart.intergenia.de> References: <1192465995.9847.587.camel@queen.suse.de> <20071016175053.GB17671@netswarm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from isis45.plusserver.de ([217.172.174.164]:46035 "EHLO isis45.plusserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965305AbXJPSNC (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:13:02 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071016175053.GB17671@netswarm.net> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Christian Birchinger Cc: Thomas Renninger , linux-acpi , Len Brown , "Li, Shaohua" , ibm-acpi-devel Hi, Christian Birchinger wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:33:15PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > Recent Lenovo ThinkPads define a dummy grahpics device, find it and ignore it > > I think it's ok. dmesg says: > > ACPI: Video device VID not physically connected, ignoring > input: Video Bus as /devices/virtual/input/input11 > ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) > No i think thats not enough because not everyone is using the ACPI video extension at this moment and at least for my ThinkPad X61 i got: babyface@bart:~$ ls /proc/acpi/video/VID CRT0 DOS DVI0 LCD0 POST POST_info ROM info babyface@bart:~$ ls /proc/acpi/video/VID1 CRT0 DOS DVI0 LCD0 POST POST_info ROM info input: Video Bus as /devices/virtual/input/input3 ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) input: Video Bus as /devices/virtual/input/input4 ACPI: Video Device [VID1] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) Anyway, also tools like lspci should show you the fake vga device and the X.org will complaint about it like: (WW) intel: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found And if you add this section (just for people who want to fix those warnings) your X server will no longer start. :) Can someone correct me if i am wrong? > # ls /proc/acpi/video/ > VID/ > > (Only one entry now -> good) > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html --Maik