Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:22:28 +0800 | From | "Antonino A. Daplas" <> | Subject | Re: Yet more display troubles with 2.6.15-rc5-mm2 |
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Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 12/13/05, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> wrote: >> Jesper Juhl wrote: >>> On 12/12/05, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> 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.
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