Improving the suspend quirks guessworking

[Victor Lowther]

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 01:23 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Samstag, 22. März 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > If the user specifies any quirks, the defaults won't be used. I don't
> > think that's a concern. What's more of an issue is that these aren't
> > "fixes" - they're workarounds for the fact that our graphics system is
> > deficient. I don't think that defaulting to "We will do nothing to
> > restore your graphics state" is helpful.
> 
> I think the current behavior is much more helpful than you think. The current 
> behavior force the people to report problems and quirks back to us. And the 
> benefit in this case is bigger for many users (because we add the quirk and 
> it work then for hundreds users) then use some strange fallback workarounds.

The problem is that the quirks as they are currently implemented have no
provision at all for handling the case where you can purchase a single
model of system with multiple different types of graphics cards.

I think it is rather ironic that the video quirks in HAL assume that any
given system model uses only one type of video card.  This is assuredly
not the case for a significant amount of modern hardware, and is
woefully inadequate if we want suspend/resume to work at all reliably
out of the box for desktop hardware.

> Danny
> 
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Victor Lowther
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