[hal-info patch] Add default video quirks

Stefan Seyfried seife at suse.de
Wed Jun 25 04:29:43 PDT 2008


Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:26:00PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
>> Wouldn't it be a better approach, to analyze the existing hal database
>> and choose the default quirks based on this data?
> 
> Each of the quirks is needed by some hardware. Adding extra quirks 
> breaks systems less often than missing required ones.

My experience differs here. Especially vbestate restore seems to break quite a
lot of machines.
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