[PATCH savage] Refactor BIOS modes retrieval to only call VBEGetVBEInfo once

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 23:07:12 +0100, Tormod Volden wrote:

> From: Tormod Volden <debian.tormod at gmail.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tormod Volden <debian.tormod at gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> The change should be fine by itself, but the reason I changed this is
> that with the latest stack (upgraded to 1.12RC etc) the second call to
> VBEGetVBEInfo would return corrupted values. There, I fixed it!(TM) :)
> 
> So was the issue due to bugs in the savage driver, or is there something
> more general VBE stuff broken? I also noticed that the vesa driver messes
> up now, the computer hardlocks when I try to change VT. I haven't had time
> to investigate that much further so I don't know if it is related.
> 
> Anyone else seeing strange stuff with VBE-enabled drivers?
> 
ajax was having fun in vesa-land recently AIUI (by which I mean was
trying to make it work again with 1.12), so it seems like it's not just
you.

Cheers,
Julien