Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Feb 10 2005 - 15:13:35 EST


On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 21:25 +0200, Ville SyrjÃlà wrote:
> BTW it seems that old ATI cards use the BIOS to initialize secondary
> adapters even under Windows.
> See http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/3663.html.

It also explicitly states that Windows 2000 and XP don't support this,
which leads me to suspect that vendors no longer expect POSTing to be
possible after initial system boot.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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