Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

Matthew Garrett
2005-02-07T13:24:56Z

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 16:02 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> Some systems (intel notably) appear to expect you to use the bios
> save/restore video state not re-POST.

This works well in many cases, but there are some machines that freeze
if you attempt to make a VBE state save call. Sadly, I don't have any
access to an affected machine, so it's a bit awkward working out what
the problem is.

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