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

[Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 12/14/05, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On 12/13/05, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >>> On 12/12/05, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> 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?
>
> The vbetool is capable of getting/setting or saving/restoring the current
> state of the hardware.  You can run vbetool vbestate save before going
> to X and then run vbetool vbestate restore after switching back to console.
>

Hi Antonio,

Sorry about the late reply but I've been busy and unable to return to
this issue until now.

I've tried building vbetool, but unfortunately all versions of it that
I can obtain refuse to build on my system, so at the moment I can't do
that testing for you.

I'll test the recently released 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 as well as
2.6.15-rc6-git1 and let you know if they have this issue or not.

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