Re: Yet more display troubles with 2.6.15-rc5-mm2

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Tue Dec 13 2005 - 16:18:53 EST


On 12/13/05, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On 12/12/05, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >>
> > I'm already using the vesa driver. It seems to be the only Open Source
> > driver that'll work with this card, so i don't have any other to try.
> >
>
> I just tried with Xorg vesa and vgacon, and everything seems to work okay.
> Now I'm not sure what changes in linux causes the vgacon state restore
> to fail (VGA state restoration is almost the entire responsibility
> of X, BTW), but maybe you can use vbetool to get and set the vga mode,
> just to test?
>
Ok, I'm not familiar with that tool and my distribution doesn't
include it, but if it will be useful to you for me to test with it
I'll get and install it. What exactely would you like me to do/try
with it?

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