Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:23:13 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? |
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Hi!
> >> I have done some experiments with this video post stuff. > >> I think this should be done using x86 emulator rather than doing > >> in real mode. The reason being, with an userlevel emulator > >we can call > >> it at different times during resume. The current real mode videopost > >> does > > > >Actually Ole Rohne has patch that allows you to call real mode any > >time you want. > > Yes. I tried Ole's patch. That helped on one of my laptops. But, on > the other one it doesn't work. It goes into real mode but never returns. > Both systems had Radeom 9000M cards, but one with older version of the > firmware (didn't work) and one with newer version. > > IIRC, even Stefan had similar problems with Ole's patch.
It did not work for me, either, but I verified that it works as expected if I comment out actuall call of BIOS. So the problem is not with Ole's patch but with bios, and it may be the same if you emulate it...
[Of course, it will not crash whole system when emulated, but system without video is not too good, either]. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - 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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