Xorg 7.0r1 / i810 / ForceBios doesn't work with fairlite drivers

[Philip Prindeville]

Philip Prindeville wrote:

>Tim Dijkstra wrote:
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>>On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:57:18 +0200
>>Christian Weiske <cweiske at cweiske.de> wrote:
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>>>Alan,
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>>>>In the interim, continue to use the i915resolution program instead.
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>>>I can't use it when hibernating, as I can't call the program before
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>>Just call it from an initramfs then, just before the resume kicks in,
>>works great for me.
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>>grts Tim
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>Say, I was wondering... As long as we continue to drag the ball & chain
>called VBE, why not integrate the 915resolution into the i810 driver and
>pass the parameter in as a kernel flag when booting?
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>That way, the i810 module could register an ACPI handler that remembers
>to rewrite the RAM copy of VBIOS when the machine returns from
>suspend, etc... and it would just work.
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>-Philip
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In case it wasn't clear, I was referring to the kernel i810 module
(kernel/drivers/char/drm/i810.ko)
and not to the Xorg server module i810_drv.so ...

-Philip