Hi!

> > > > If PCI IDs/subids are good at telling machines apart, lets use that.
> > > 
> > > Ok. HAL can already match them easily :-)
> > 
> > I'd really prefer not to use HAL. 
> 
> You don't have to. You can still use "sram -f -foo -whatever". There is
> even the "alias" command in most shells to make this easier ;-)

Yep... and change my shell scripts every time I switch a machine. No,
thanks.

> > > Another thing: what about machines that work good with either the X server
> > > restoring the video _or_ with vbe_post|vbe_save, but not with both?
> > 
> > Fix X server. Seriously, this is X server problem.
> 
> Well, whole s2ram is about not fixing it where it should be fixed. The kernel
> is the one that should do the workarounds.

s2ram is for workarounds that we _can't_ fix properly. This is X
server problem that _can_ be fixed.

You are right that with proper video drivers s2ram can hopefully
disappear in far future, but...

> And i was told that even though the intel X server comes with source, the code
> is nice enough that nobody wants to really look at it ;-)

I do not have affected system, and don't try to ship me one ;-).
                                                                        Pavel
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