[hal-info patch] Add default video quirks

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 05:14:54PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:08:31PM +0200, ext Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:51:17PM +0200, ext Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > >> you cannot switch to the X-Server while the kernel is POSTing
> > >> the BIOS, but you can while vbetool does
> > > 
> > > In which parallel universe is it a good idea to switch to the X server
> > > (and thus let it start bashing registers on the video card) while
> > > vbetool is already bashing registers on the video card?
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > I'm not saying it is a good idea - the contrary, but with s3_bios,s3_mode,
> > users don't even get a chance to press alt-f7. With vbetool they do.
> 
> So you're actually advocating running X mode restoration in parallel to
> VBIOS mode restoration? Awesome.

Sorry, it was pointed out to me that you weren't actually arguing in
favour of vbetool -- I thought you were presenting this is as one of
vbetool's positives.  My apologies.

Cheers,
Daniel
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