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SubjectRe: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?
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
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