[Pm-utils] [PATCH 6/7] This patch adds framebuffer console handling routines.

[Till Maas]

On Wed February 13 2008, Victor Lowther wrote:

> My system is a Dell Latitude D820 with the nvidia 7400 go.  They also
> shipped with intergrated Intel video.  You cannot tell the difference
> looking just at system model and BIOS revision.  In my system, the
> default whitelist applies the wrong quirks every time and without
> overriding the whitelist supplied settings my system will die on resume
> every time when the card gets POSTed.  Submitting a whitelist update
> would be guaranteed to break other systems in the field, because the
> whitelist does not look at what video card the system is actually using,
> which (these days) is the single biggest source of suspend/resume
> glitches.
>
> The same holds true for any portable system that can be purchased with
> different models of video card.
>
> I would prefer a whitelist that actually looks at the installed video
> card(s) and the driver(s) those cards are using before applying quirks.

Afaik it is already possible to distinguish systems by their video card and 
used driver within the hal whitelist. But it case there are several video 
cards installed, it is not possible to apply  differents quirks to different 
video cards. But this is also a limitation of some quirks, e.g.

<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_322:info.linux.driver" 
string="nvidia">

is recognized on my desktop that uses an nvidia video card with the binary 
driver. In general, it should be possible to match agains anything that is 
stored in hal, I used lshal to find out what I can use to match agains my 
video card.

Regards,
Till





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