From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264246AbUJWEQ3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:16:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266838AbUJWEPJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:15:09 -0400 Received: from imap.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:59806 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264246AbUJVRd2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:33:28 -0400 X-Authenticated: #14776911 From: Stefan =?iso-8859-1?q?D=F6singer?= Reply-To: stefandoesinger@gmx.at To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:31:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: "Matthew Garrett" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <88056F38E9E48644A0F562A38C64FB6003287C77@scsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <88056F38E9E48644A0F562A38C64FB6003287C77@scsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410221931.37557.stefandoesinger@gmx.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Actually I sent the kernel patch to call some userlevel vgapost utility > on this same thread around a week back. I am sending it here again. > > I don't think sending a big userlevel code tar file is appropriate on > lkml. > I will send that in a separate mail to Matthew and Stefan. If anyone > else > wants to play with it, just let me know. > > It works for me on various systems with Radeon card. It didn't help on > systems with Intel Graphics card. Works for me too. You can add "Acer Travelmate 800" to the it_works_on list ;-) > Stefan: Yes. Usermodehelper won't work during the driver resume. But, it > > works later after the kernel threads are woken up. With attached patch > and > with user level vgapost I can get video back, both on X and VGA console. > It doesn't help with framebuffer, as the framebuffer reinitialization > happens during the driver resume, which is earlier than this vgapost > call. I expected this, but I hoped that it works somehow with radeonfb. Stefan