Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:03:47 +0200 (IST) | From | Matan Ziv-Av <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon)) |
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Some systems (intel notably) appear to expect you to use the bios >> save/restore video state not re-POST. > > Isn't that what it's there for? In any context other than save/restore I > wouldn't think using the BIOS was a good approach. But this is a special > case, and if there's a BIOS function which does the right thing, it would > seem to be easier to assume that the BIOS works than that the driver can do > every operation for a clean restart.
Maybe with new cards it is different but a few years ago, most cards that I tested had problems with those functions.
-- Matan Ziv-Av. matan@svgalib.org
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