| From | Matthew Garrett <> | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:00:21 +0000 | Subject | Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3 |
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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
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