From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030322AbVLNBWk (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:22:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030332AbVLNBWk (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:22:40 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.192]:42961 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030322AbVLNBWj (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:22:39 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Yyh4GOFRSG9KAtWg+xVd8JL7mVQpZYaV3VnlEo9tldO67luvR4r3olCUuBxlPTKMnGVNk5xkD6OGXN3oSPzmla+LmfEM0HCwLY6lfMv/N9CQVV4QTfRqzNk8q5dA7+lD+Quqyb8GiCnf4B3ScH9nJUi4LhaWi2yF56RGuH6NLW8= Message-ID: <439F73D4.9060304@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:22:28 +0800 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesper Juhl CC: LKML List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Yet more display troubles with 2.6.15-rc5-mm2 References: <9a8748490512111306x3b01cb8cw2068a7ad3af93b03@mail.gmail.com> <439CBE49.2090901@gmail.com> <9a8748490512121031p11beaa51l7445ce1a5b31c3c6@mail.gmail.com> <439E9762.4070809@gmail.com> <9a8748490512131319o408a368eqfed225abebaff4d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9a8748490512131319o408a368eqfed225abebaff4d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 12/13/05, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: >> Jesper Juhl wrote: >>> On 12/12/05, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: >>>> Jesper Juhl wrote: >>>> >>> I'm already using the vesa driver. It seems to be the only Open Source >>> driver that'll work with this card, so i don't have any other to try. >>> >> I just tried with Xorg vesa and vgacon, and everything seems to work okay. >> Now I'm not sure what changes in linux causes the vgacon state restore >> to fail (VGA state restoration is almost the entire responsibility >> of X, BTW), but maybe you can use vbetool to get and set the vga mode, >> just to test? >> > Ok, I'm not familiar with that tool and my distribution doesn't > include it, but if it will be useful to you for me to test with it > I'll get and install it. What exactely would you like me to do/try > with it? The vbetool is capable of getting/setting or saving/restoring the current state of the hardware. You can run vbetool vbestate save before going to X and then run vbetool vbestate restore after switching back to console. Tony