[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-nv 2.1.10

[René Rebe]

Hi,

I just wanted to let you know that the posting with the dumped (un-shadowed)
Video BIOS indeed allows resuming on my MacBookPro. As I did not had
the pm-utils and other HAL (quirks whatever) installed, I manaully tested it
with this command sequence:

vbetool vbestate save > x
echo mem > /sys/power/state

vbetool post ./video.rom
sleep .1
vbetool vbestate restore < x

With XAA this works, however with EXA switching back to X stalls the GPU
for yet unknown reasons.

Thank you again Matthew! Especially as this tip implicitly pointed me to the
new vbetool location and the now split out libx86 library, which I 
updated in,
and added to the T2 SDE:

  http://www.t2-project.org/packages/libx86.html
  http://www.t2-project.org/packages/vbetool.html

Have a nice day,
  René

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:50:15PM +0200, Rene Rebe wrote:
>
>   
>> Thank you for all that info, I'll give it a try the next time
>> I can wreck^Wreboot my book.
>>     
>
> I've been working on putting the nouveau BIOS parsing code in-kernel, 
> which works for my nv44 but seems to fail for just about everyone else 
> on the planet. The g80 support for the BIOS code isn't complete yet, 
> though. It'd be nice if nvidia could release this - it seems hard to 
> imagine that there's any real IP issues involved.
>   
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