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    [PATCH] neofb: take existing display configuration as default · 4836f574
    Christian Trefzer authored
    On a Dell Latitude CPi-A I noticed a strangeness wrt.  the handling of an
    external monitor by the neomagic framebuffer driver, namely when the laptop is
    docked in a C/Dock II with the lid shut.
    
    A cold boot would result in the BIOS configuring the video chip to use the
    "external monitor only" mode, yet neofb would default to "internal LCD only".
    An attempt for a quick fix by using the Fn-F8 keystroke to toggle the display
    combination modes resulted in a reproductible hard lock, powering down being
    the only solution.
    
    The attached patch makes neofb probe the register for the current display
    mode, using that value as a default if nothing was specified as kernel/module
    parameter.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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