Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:45:10 +0100 |
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On Gwe, 2004-10-15 at 13:38, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Why not? Of course you won't get any output before the graphics card has been > re-initialized to a sane and usable state...
That will depend on the system. The AMD64 boxes I have all allow the bios to post the video card on S3 resume.
For a lot of other stuff we can run the bios directly on the resume path without emulation (or for intel call the video restore bios int). For the rest this could be a useful weapon.
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