From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:54:01 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20041019215401.GG1142@elf.ucw.cz> References: <416E6ADC.3007.294DF20D@localhost> <87d5zkqj8h.fsf@bytesex.org> <1097844301.9863.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1097844301.9863.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux Frame Buffer Device Development , Linux Kernel Development , penguinppc-team@lists.penguinppc.org Hi! On P=E1 15-10-04 13:45:10, Alan Cox wrote: > On Gwe, 2004-10-15 at 13:38, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: ~~~- eh? :-) > > Why not? Of course you won't get any output before the graphics car= d has been > > re-initialized to a sane and usable state... >=20 > That will depend on the system. The AMD64 boxes I have all allow the > bios to post the video card on S3 resume.=20 Do you have Arima a.k.a. eMachines notebook near you? That's the one I can't get to work... > For a lot of other stuff we can run the bios directly on the resume p= ath > without emulation (or for intel call the video restore bios > int). For the rest this could be a useful weapon. What's the video restore bios int? Pavel --=20 People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... =2E..jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!