Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 May 2002 22:20:11 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, boot params 1/11 |
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Hi!
> > > Do you mean something other than the vga= command line option? > > > Which actually just sets a 16bit mode in the kernel parameter structure. > > > > In case of vga=ask, it is kernel that gets number from the user, > > right? > > Right. > > > I'd need to know what mode was actually selected, so I can restore it > > after S3 resume. > > I guess that works. In this case it makes sense for the kernel to > store it in the same variable the video mode is specified in. This > may require an extra store but it should be trivial to implement. > > How are you handling the case of X and friends? Are you making > certain to switch to kernel controlled vt?
Switch to kernel-controlled-console with messages about suspend is how I'm handling this in S4 (suspend-to-disk).
> My hunch is that this is a decent argument for real framebuffer drivers > in the kernel. But that is a separate problem.
Well, not neccessary since I can switch consoles back and forth in kernel just fine. Pavel -- Casualities in World Trade Center: ~3k dead inside the building, cryptography in U.S.A. and free speech in Czech Republic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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