[haiku-development] Re: Anyone seen this - Vesa delay
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:16:18 +0200
Hi Zenja,
Zenja Solaja wrote:
> Morning / Afternoon / Evening.
>
> I just came back from a month away (Thailand is beautiful), and noticed a
> weird quirk with what may be Vesa related. When booting on real
> hardware, just before the desktop appears (after all boot-screen icons
> finish loading) there is a new delay which lasts approximately a full
> minute. During this delay, the actual PC speaker beeped 3 times, with a
> frequency of one beep every 20 seconds or so. After the 3rd beep, the
> screen went blank, and 20 seconds later the desktop appeared.
>
> When changing screen resolutions, the same thing will happen again. The
> PC will appear as if its locked up (no mouse movement, no hard disk
> activity), and beep once every 20 seconds. On the 3rd beep, the screen
> will go blank.
> After a final 20 seconds, the screen resolution will change, with the
> good
> old timer to accept new screen resolution or cancel. Yep, thats right,
> even the timer got suspended for a full minute while waiting for the
> video card to respond.
>
> I have an nVidia 8800GT, Vesa driver. Before I went on a vacation a
> month ago, this behaviour wasn't happening. Latest revision displays
> this weirdness. I have noticed that some work has been done with the
> Vesa driver to allow dynamic updates without reboots.
>
> Has anyone seen this before?
I know that Ingo is experiencing the same behavior. On my system, I just
get "General System Error" when I try to change resolution (VESA also)
during runtime. But I think if I have a vesa kernel settings file with
anything different than the native resolution, my system does not boot. I
am not sure, but I thought for the behavior you describe, there is a bug
report, but I could be wrong.
Jan, any ideas?
Best regards,
-Stephan
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