Re: Yet more display troubles with 2.6.15-rc5-mm2

Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 12/12/05, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Jesper Juhl wrote:
>>
> I'm already using the vesa driver. It seems to be the only Open Source
> driver that'll work with this card, so i don't have any other to try.
>

I just tried with Xorg vesa and vgacon, and everything seems to work okay.
Now I'm not sure what changes in linux causes the vgacon state restore
to fail (VGA state restoration is almost the entire responsibility
of X, BTW), but maybe you can use vbetool to get and set the vga mode,
just to test?


Tony
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