On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 01:38:27PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > The most likely explanation for this is that the VESA BIOS expects to be > entered in Big Real Mode (*.limit = 0xffffffff) instead of ordinary Real > Mode. Here is a completely untested patch which changes the segment > descriptors to Big Real Mode instead. It would be worth testing out. Recent Lenovo BIOSes will read from somewhere just under the 4GB boundary if the video BIOS is called, so this sounds likely. Unfortunately my T61 is, uh, unhappy right now, so I can't test this. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
