vbetool: A tool to run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state¹

Vbetool uses lrmi in order to run code from the video BIOS. Currently, it is able to alter DPMS states, save/restore video card state, and attempt to initialize the video card from scratch. It exists primarily in order to increase the chances of successfully recovering video state after an ACPI S3 suspend.

... part of T2, get it here

URL: http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/vbetool/

Author: Matthew Garrett <mjg59-freshmeat [at] srcf [dot] ucam [dot] org>
Maintainer: Rene Rebe <rene [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: GPL
Status: Beta
Version: 1.1

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).

Download: http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/vbetool/download/ vbetool-1.1.tar.gz

T2 source: vbetool.cache
T2 source: vbetool.desc

Build time (on reference hardware): 1% (relative to binutils)²

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.07 MB, 7 files

Dependencies (build time detected): 00-dirtree bash binutils coreutils diffutils findutils gawk grep libx86 linux-header make pciutils sed tar zlib

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

¹) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.

²) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).