Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] SamsungP35, S3, black screen (radeon))

[Matan Ziv-Av]

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.


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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@xxxxxxxxxxx

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