IBM (and other) quirks mixed up?

Zack Cerza zcerza at redhat.com
Wed May 16 08:26:36 PDT 2007


Zack Cerza wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 18:21 -0400, Zack Cerza wrote:
>>  
>>> The solution for ATI chips they recommended was the s3_bios quirk.
>>> Only the IBM quirks file [1] lists the quirks for my laptop (2525) as
>>> vbe_post and vbestate_restore. I don't know if there are somehow other
>>> 2525s that need those quirks and not s3_bios, but I do know the
>>> current fdi file is broken for mine.
>>>     
>>
>> Is the 2525 always the same video card? If so, then we should just
>> change the fdi to what works for you. Patches gleefully accepted! ;-)
>>   
> I'd "guess" that 2525s all had 915s, but I can't say for sure. I did a 
> little bit of googling, but had no luck getting a real answer.
>
> Even if in this particular case we can safely base our video-related 
> assumptions based on the model number, I'm willing to bet there is 
> some foolish vendor that breaks that. Is it possible to match on model 
> number *and* video chip/driver?
>
> <snip>
>
> Zack
So, everything I've seen suggests that 2525s only come with 915s. In 
that case, we should probably change the quirks to what we know works, 
right?

Zack


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