> This has been identified by Alan Houriane, the main
developper of the
> i810 driver by a race problem between the APM BIOS that
tells the OS
> that the machine just woke up and the video BIOS which
has not
> completely restored the graphics chip set. He
mentionned ACPI as a
> possible way to "fix" that, but I think
OpenBSD is far from having ACPI
> suspend/resume support.
Which just means he doesn't understand that on an IBM
laptop APM is
implimented by doing exacly what the ACPI code does... by
calling it.
If he doesn't want to work around mistakes in the hardware,
it still
means he's coping out of doing the right thing.
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