Video PM Methods

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Tue May 16 12:22:36 PDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:20 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Yeah, I don't understand it either. And since understanding it would 
> require understanding Intel's BIOS, I'm happy to keep it at arm's 
> length. There's nothing stopping an application from querying hal during 
> boot and using that information to decide whether to save the state.

Still seems weird.  This implies that X's VT_SWITCH code isn't setting
everything back to the same state it found it before the switch, and
that's really not good.
-- 
  Peter



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