Re: [patch 1/9] atyfb: Remove FIXME

["Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 10:20:25AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Ville [iso-8859-1] Syrj??wrote:
> > > have checked this patches  on my RAGE MOBILITY 
> > > on top of 2.6.17.11(added with some fuzzies)
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Kern <alex.kern@gmx.de>
> > > for all 9 patches
> > > 
> > > Best Wishes
> > > Mit freundlichen Gr?n
> > > 
> > > P.S. I would like to iron out the long standing issue on my laptop
> > > I saw about for along time. I can shutdown but reboot. At least TFT goes 
> >                                                 ^
> > There should be a "not" here, right?
> > 
> > > black, leds go off and than nothing. Have you any infos about special 
> > > register state for MOBILITY before reboot?
> > 
> > No. My OmniBook 500 does the same thing BTW. I can shutdown but reboot 
> > just hangs the laptop. I'm guessing the BIOS doesn't like the state in 
> > which atyfb leaves the card. The reason I'm thinking it's the BIOS is 
> > that my OB6000, which has nearly the same hardware, reboots just fine.
> > I also tried all of the reboot= kernel options but none helped.
> > 
> > Maybe we just need to restore some of the original state before reboot. 
> > But I don't know if that's even possible. Do drivers get any kind of 
> > notification about reboot?
> 
> I used to have the same problem (shutdown works, reboot hangs with black
> screen) on my Vaio Z600 (Z505 in US/JP), but recent 2.6 (I use a Debian kernel)
> seems to have this fixed.

Was that with atyfb? My OB500 reboots fine without atyfb.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
syrjala@sci.fi
http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/

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