Re: Re: Samsung P35 and S3 suspend

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004-hi6Y0CQ0nG0@public.gmane.org>]

Matthew Garrett schrieb:
> On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 19:41 +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote:
> 
> 
>>1: VGA POST
>>2. VESA reset
> 
> 
> Can you try the vm86_video_post and vbestate programs from
> http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/laptops/ ? You want to do something like
> this:
> 
> 1) chvt away from X on suspend
> 2) vbestate save >/tmp/state
> 3) suspend
> 4) resume
> 5) vm86_video_post
> 6) vbestate restore </tmp/state
> 7) chvt back to X
> 
> This sequence (possibly with a dpms on in there somewhere) seems to work
> on a fairly large number of machines.

It sort of works. Before step 7, the (text mode) display contains garbage.
But it is much more comfortable than starting a second X server.
Any chance to get the functionality into
- the X.Org Radeon server and
- the kernel to make suspend work with framebuffer console?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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http://www.hailfinger.org/


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