Re: vbetool on AMD64

2005-12-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Frank (yeah, I know, old post, but still) | So I guess, there is some reason, that this program does not work on 64bit | machines. Is there a workaround or any other idea, how I can get my display | back alive? vbetool 0.4 and newer (as is in testing and unstable) should use x86emu on !i386

Re: vbetool on AMD64

2005-11-12 Thread Frank
As I learned on the ACPI mailing list, vbetool indeed cannot operate on an x86_64 kernel, because that one does not provide vm86. If anybody is interested, here is the thread: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8933707&forum_id=6102 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

vbetool on AMD64

2005-11-05 Thread Frank
I am trying to resume an AMD64 laptop from Suspend to RAM, and the laptop seems to wake up fine (I can type commands and they get executed), but the LCD stays black. So I read about the various options to reinitialize the VGA, which were: 1. kernel boot options: acpi=s3_sleep, acpi=s3_mode, pci=