From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261394AbVBQLA6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:00:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262177AbVBQLA6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:00:58 -0500 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([213.162.118.85]:23494 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261394AbVBQLAx (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:00:53 -0500 From: Matthew Garrett To: Len Brown Cc: Pavel Machek , ACPI mailing list , Kernel Mailing List , seife@suse.de, rjw@sisk.pl In-Reply-To: <1108621005.2096.412.camel@d845pe> References: <20050214211105.GA12808@elf.ucw.cz> <1108621005.2096.412.camel@d845pe> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:00:21 +0000 Message-Id: <1108638021.4085.143.camel@tyrosine> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 213.162.118.93 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org Subject: Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1 (built Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:06:07 +0200) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on cavan.codon.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 01:16 -0500, Len Brown wrote: > Pavel, > I think that it is the BIOS' job on S3-suspend > to save the video mode. On S3-resume the BIOS should > re-POST and restore the video mode. I agree, but in the absence of spec requirement and some form of certification process, I don't see it happening in the near future. Given that vendors are still shipping invalid DSDTs, if Windows is able to reinitialise the graphics hardware, few are going to care about making life easier for Linux. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org