From a21101c46ca5b4320e31408853cdcbf7cb1ce4ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhang Rui Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:46:22 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] ACPI: video: _DOS=0 by default to prevent hotkey hang In the past, the Linux/ACPI video driver invoked _DOS (Display Output Switch) with the parameter 1 to tell the BIOS to switch the video output display for us. But this conflicts with Linux native graphics drivers, and can cause all sorts of issues, including hanging the system. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6001 Here we change the Linux default to evaluate _DOS=0, which tells the BIOS to simply send us a hotkey event and not touch the graphics hardware. The acpi video driver sends the display switch hotkey event up through the intput layer, and X can interpret that and use its native graphics driver to switch the display. For the case where Linux has no native graphics driver running, or the graphics driver doesn't know how to switch video and the BIOS (safely) does, the previous behaviour can be restored with: # echo 1 > /proc/acpi/video/*/DOS Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- drivers/acpi/video.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c index 3c9bb85a6a93..6cb3e7b12145 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/video.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c @@ -1754,7 +1754,7 @@ static int acpi_video_bus_put_devices(struct acpi_video_bus *video) static int acpi_video_bus_start_devices(struct acpi_video_bus *video) { - return acpi_video_bus_DOS(video, 1, 0); + return acpi_video_bus_DOS(video, 0, 0); } static int acpi_video_bus_stop_devices(struct acpi_video_bus *video) -- 2.20.1