Re: [PATCH 2/2] Recent Lenovo ThinkPads define a dummy grahpics device, find it and ignore it

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On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 20:09 +0200, Maik Broemme wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Christian Birchinger <joker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 06:33:15PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > > Recent Lenovo ThinkPads define a dummy grahpics device, find it and ignore it
> > 
> > I think it's ok. dmesg says:
> > 
> > ACPI: Video device VID not physically connected, ignoring
> > input: Video Bus as /devices/virtual/input/input11
> > ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
> > 
> 
> No i think thats not enough because not everyone is using the ACPI video
> extension at this moment and at least for my ThinkPad X61 i got:
> 
> babyface@bart:~$ ls /proc/acpi/video/VID
> CRT0  DOS  DVI0  LCD0  POST  POST_info  ROM  info
> babyface@bart:~$ ls /proc/acpi/video/VID1
> CRT0  DOS  DVI0  LCD0  POST  POST_info  ROM  info
> 
> input: Video Bus as /devices/virtual/input/input3
> ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes rom: no  post: no)
> input: Video Bus as /devices/virtual/input/input4
> ACPI: Video Device [VID1] (multi-head: yes rom: no  post: no)
> 
> Anyway, also tools like lspci should show you the fake vga device and
> the X.org will complaint about it like:
> 
> (WW) intel: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found
> 
> And if you add this section (just for people who want to fix those
> warnings) your X server will no longer start. :) Can someone correct me if
> i am wrong?
Can you send lspci output and check your BIOS version (dmidecode |less,
there should be a string like KEWWT456 and a version, not sure, AFAIK
2.01 should be about the latest...).

Thanks,

    Thomas

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