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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:11:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B53FDF.5020806@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6a2187b0708041937u41f3911ap3f1af6115b797d6b@mail.gmail.com>

Jeff Chua wrote:
> On 8/5/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> 
>> Also, can you please describe "messed up" in more detail?
> 
> The screen went into some graphic mode that can't be reset no matter
> what I tried (stty reset). I see all kinds of ramdom pattern/color
> everywhere. Then typing "startx" would get in X just fine. But trying
> to get back to console (ALT F1) or (Ctrl ALT BackSpace) would still
> end up with the messed-up console.
> 

>> Are you using the VGA console or a framebuffer console?
>
> VGA console.

Okay, since you're using VGA console this means suspend-to-ram isn't
restoring the mode.

Does it matter if you suspend from inside X or not?

>> We had one report of "screen messed up" already that did get fixed
>> (CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID not working.)
> 
> How can I try this?

The patch for this is in -rc2.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-05  3:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-04  3:50 Linux 2.6.23-rc2 Linus Torvalds
2007-08-04  4:14 ` david
2007-08-04  5:13 ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-04  5:34   ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-04 13:52     ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-04 16:11       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-04 18:06         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-04 21:02           ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-08-05  2:37           ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-05  3:11             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-08-05 11:52               ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-07 17:05                 ` David Weinehall
2007-08-08  2:46                   ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-05  2:29         ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-05 12:04         ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-04 10:30 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-08-04 22:15   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-08-05  3:22 ` "Badness at kernel/irq/resend.c:70" on boot - via-pmu? Paul Collins
2007-08-05  4:41   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-05 21:51     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-05 12:11 Linux 2.6.23-rc2 Jeff Chua
2007-08-05 12:40 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-08-05 13:26   ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-05 16:47     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-08-06  0:36       ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-06 11:26         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-08-06 12:34           ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-06 16:40           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-06 15:40     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-06 16:06       ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-06 16:34         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-06 16:46         ` Indan Zupancic
2007-08-06 17:16           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-06 17:32             ` Indan Zupancic
2007-08-06 17:33               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-06 22:53                 ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-06 22:54                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-06 22:57                     ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-06 23:00                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-06 22:48           ` Jeff Chua
2007-08-06 23:20 Jeff Chua

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