From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon)) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:34:55 -0500 Message-ID: <9e47339105021012341c94c441@mail.gmail.com> 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> Reply-To: Jon Smirl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <1108067388.4085.74.camel@tyrosine> 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: Matthew Garrett Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ville_Syrj=E4l=E4?= , Bill Davidsen , Alan Cox , Pavel Machek , ncunningham-jjFNsPSvq+iXDw4h08c5KA@public.gmane.org, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , ACPI List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kendall Bennett List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org I added Kendall from Scitech to the CC list. He is the expert on getting VBIOS's to post. Maybe he can help. On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:29:47 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 15:17 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:08:15 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > It also explicitly states that Windows 2000 and XP don't support this, > > > which leads me to suspect that vendors no longer expect POSTing to be > > > possible after initial system boot. > > > > No, it means that some of my ATI cards don't function as secondary > > adapters on 2K and XP. > > And nor will any other card that requires POSTing (assuming that it > isn't just ATI being less than honest about driver shortcomings). And > we've certainly seen in the past that removing support for functionality > in Windows tends to result in hardware no longer supporting that > functionality. > > I have real, shipping hardware here that fails if you simply try to > execute the video BIOS POST code. If you think this is due to a > shortcoming in existing BIOS emulations, I'm more than happy to dump the > video and system BIOS regions and send them to you. > > -- > Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org > > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@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