Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Feb 04 2005 - 02:54:28 EST


Hi!

> > > User has triggered resume
> > > run wakeup.S
>
> wakeup.S runs in real mode. Why can't it just call the VBIOS at
> C000:0003 to reset the hardware before setting the mode?

We already try to do that, but it hangs on 70% of machines. See
Documentation/power/video.txt.
Pavel
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