Re: Bank screen after resume on Dell XPS M1330

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun May 03 2009 - 18:03:08 EST


On Sun 2009-05-03 22:59:35, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:57:41PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Sun 2009-05-03 11:59:32, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:11:47AM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS
> > > > (rev a1)
> > >
> > > We don't know how to reinitialise nvidia graphics hardware.
> >
> > s2ram tool and/or Xserver may be able to reinit the video....
>
> Not for current nivida, except for some Thinkpads.

Ok, that's bad. There still should be chance to reverse-engineer the
BIOS or tweak the emulation in libx86 until it works with the nvidias,
but... that's a lot of work.
Pavel
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