[hal-info patch] Add default video quirks
Matthew Garrett
mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed Jun 25 07:10:24 PDT 2008
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:08:31PM +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> This is a very bad idea, but users do it, if the resume seems to be stuck.
> And vbetool post / vbetool vbestate restore _can_ take quite some time on some
> machines. And yes, i got bugreports in the past from people doing that.
It's not something anyone had brought up as a bug before, but it's easy
enough to handle by registering a signal handler for the vt switch and
refusing to release the console until execution has finished.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
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