On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Randolph Bentson wrote:

> I'm trying to get DPMS screen blanking to work on a ViewSonic
> ViewPad 1000, but I'm concerned about the code which has
> appeared in 4.2.0.

> In 4.1.0,  DPMSSet indirectly called VESADisplayPowerManagementSet,
> which called vgaHWDPMSSet, which called stdwriteCrtc via a pointer,
> which contained the lines

>  outb(hwp->IOBase + hwp->PIOOffset + VGA_CRTC_INDEX_OFFSET, index);
>  outb(hwp->IOBase + hwp->PIOOffset + VGA_CRTC_DATA_OFFSET, value);

> In 4.2.0,  DPMSSet indirectly called VESADisplayPowerManagementSet,
> which employs the WriteCrtc macro which expands to

>  outb(VGA_CRTC_INDEX_OFFSET, index);\
>  outb(VGA_CRTC_DATA_OFFSET, value)

> That seemed clearly bogus, and fortunatly for my peace of mind,
> in yesterday's 4.2.0 CVS fetch, DPMSSet indirectly called
> VESADisplayPowerManagementSet, which employs the
> WriteCrtc macro which now expands to

>  outb(pVesa->ioBase + VGA_CRTC_INDEX_OFFSET, index);\
>  outb(pVesa->ioBase + VGA_CRTC_DATA_OFFSET, value)

> >From inspection, this seems better, but isn't there still the need
> for some additional offset?  Or was the presence of "hwp->PIOOffset"
> a red herring?

These are missing VGA_IOBASE_COLOR.  I've just committed a fix for this.
Thanks for reporting the problem.

Marc.

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