Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:02:34 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: ACPI mailing list <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
       Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, seife@suse.de,
       rjw@sisk.pl
Subject: Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3
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Hi!

> 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.

Can you find it written down somewhere? It would be certainly easier
for me if every BIOS did re-post, but it is not the case on any new
BIOS....

> To completely solve the Linux S3 video restore issue,
> we need to push the platform and BIOS vendors.
> 
> What am I missing?

I think we are missing few lines in docs somewhere saying "video must
be re-POSTed during S3 wakeup". And then we miss someone going around
vendors with baseball bat, telling them to fix their BIOSes.

								Pavel
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