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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:53:12 +0100
From: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:43:01PM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:01:21AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > i'm wondering, do you have any idea how Windows handles the 
> > suspend/resume quirks problem area? Do they "curse BIOS vendors and 
> > maintain a large DB of DMI-driven exceptions", or do they perhaps have 
> > some fundamentally better approach than us? If it's the former, then we 
> > might as well try to bring more automatism (and more of your database) 
> > into the kernel itself.
> 
> I think that in windows, you simply install the "HP nx$FOOBAR intel graphics
> driver" on a nx$FOOBAR machine, and the "ASUS $FOOBAR ATI graphics driver"
> on an ASUS $FOOBAR machine etc. Those drivers are mostly stock intel/ATI/
> whoever drivers, but with the little bit of extra knowledge on how to wake
> up the graphics chip.

That's also what the thinkwiki page suggests. It says:

"Affected Operating Systems:
  * Linux, all flavours.
  * Windows, for some models as well (only when using non-IBM drivers).
  * FreeBSD (on the A22M)"


Johannes