On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Axel Dörfler<axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fredrik Holmqvist <fredrik.holmqvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Let me rephrase my earlier message. I think it allowed an earlier >> version of VESA before but there were too many misbehaving cards >> which >> lead to a lot of garbled monitors. >> If that was the case, and what stopped i810 working, maybe cards >> known >> to work but isn't 2.0 could be allowed as exceptions. > > AFAIK we restricted the loader to VBE2 from the beginning on. I just > can't remember the specific reasons for this anymore - flat buffer > would be a good one, though :-) Well, I do know for a fact that this laptop seen running here in "safe mode": http://www.flickr.com/photos/umccullough/378472590/in/set-72157615324866653/ no longer displays properly. I tried it a couple months ago and "safe mode" is scrambled now (looks like a video memory alignment issue). I believe it's an ancient mid-90's Cirrus Logic chip running on a 640x480 resolution LCD. I also hooked it to an external display which did no better. I didn't really make a big deal out of it because clearly it's ... old. But it does mean *something* has changed in the VESA support over the years :) If you want, I can provide a serial log from that device...but it might not be soon. I'll also pull out my i810-based machines and see what I can find. - Urias