[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#480439: hal-info: Video quirks incorrect for Dell M65

[Chris AtLee]

Hi Sjoerd,

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net> wrote:
> Are you using a non-free video driver? I'm ccing Frederic who did this patch.
> Frederic, do you know for what bios versions etc ou revified the vbe_post
> setting?

Yes, I'm using the non-free nvidia driver.  The free nv driver crashes
my machine when I run certain applications.

Cheers,
Chris

>
>> The following patch fixes the display for me:
>>
>> --- hal-info-20080508.orig/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-dell.fdi
>> +++ hal-info-20080508/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-dell.fdi
>> @@ -86,8 +86,7 @@
>>            <merge key="power_management.quirk.vbestate_restore" type="bool">true</merge>
>>          </match>
>>          <match key="system.hardware.product" contains="M65">
>> -          <merge key="power_management.quirk.dpms_on" type="bool">true</merge>
>> -          <merge key="power_management.quirk.vbe_post" type="bool">true</merge>
>> +          <merge key="power_management.quirk.vbemode_restore" type="bool">true</merge>
>>          </match>
>>          <!-- these need no quirks -->
>>          <match key="system.hardware.product" contains_outof=" M90 ;WorkStation 360; M4300">
>>
>> Not sure if this is useful, but s2ram -i outputs the following:
>> This machine can be identified by:
>>     sys_vendor   = "Dell Inc."
>>     sys_product  = "Precision M65                   "
>>     sys_version  = ""
>>     bios_version = "A08"
>
>  Sjoerd
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