On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 02:04:49 +0000, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 12:31 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > Fixing this at kernel boot (resume) time will let user space apps > > assume that all video cards are reset. That removes a lot of > > complexity from the user space apps (like X). > > This can't be the default on x86. I have hardware that will die if you > attempt to POST it after the BIOS has started the OS. Non-x86 should be > fine, though.
How does the hardware die? Are you sure that it is not simply a bug in the program doing the POST? Look at the scitech source and you will see many BIOS quirks that have to be emulated in order for the post to work. If your post program is missing any of these the post won't work. So far every time I have encountered a non-working post it was fixed by tweaking some things in the post program. > -- > Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
