On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:43:01PM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:01:21AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > i'm wondering, do you have any idea how Windows handles the > > suspend/resume quirks problem area? Do they "curse BIOS vendors and > > maintain a large DB of DMI-driven exceptions", or do they perhaps have > > some fundamentally better approach than us? If it's the former, then we > > might as well try to bring more automatism (and more of your database) > > into the kernel itself. > > I think that in windows, you simply install the "HP nx$FOOBAR intel graphics > driver" on a nx$FOOBAR machine, and the "ASUS $FOOBAR ATI graphics driver" > on an ASUS $FOOBAR machine etc. Those drivers are mostly stock intel/ATI/ > whoever drivers, but with the little bit of extra knowledge on how to wake > up the graphics chip. That's also what the thinkwiki page suggests. It says: "Affected Operating Systems: * Linux, all flavours. * Windows, for some models as well (only when using non-IBM drivers). * FreeBSD (on the A22M)" Johannes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
