On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 07:50:06PM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > Victor Lowther wrote: > > My system is a Dell Latitude D820 with the nvidia 7400 go. They also > > shipped with intergrated Intel video. You cannot tell the difference > > looking just at system model and BIOS revision. In my system, the > > default whitelist applies the wrong quirks every time and without > > overriding the whitelist supplied settings my system will die on resume > > every time when the card gets POSTed. Submitting a whitelist update > > would be guaranteed to break other systems in the field, because the > > whitelist does not look at what video card the system is actually using, > > which (these days) is the single biggest source of suspend/resume > > glitches. > > This is a known problem and i am deliberately not adding such features > (whitelisting based on PCI IDs etc) to s2ram since i also believe that there > should be only one place for the whitelist and it seems that most people think > that this place is HAL.
Well, it is good that it is a recognized problem. Now, how to make it dead simple to submit new whitelist entries to HAL... > > The same holds true for any portable system that can be purchased with > > different models of video card. > > > > I would prefer a whitelist that actually looks at the installed video > > card(s) and the driver(s) those cards are using before applying quirks. > > > > Without fixing that flaw, arguing the benefits of using s2ram vs. > > vbetool to run quirk workarounds is a waste of electrons from my > > perspective. > > Nobody proposed to use the s2ram whitelist, just the "mechanics" that it > provides. > > BTW: it would probably be pretty trivial to make s2ram invoke tuxonice if > somebody showed me the spec (a.k.a. "what do i need to do to invoke suspend to > ram with tuxonice) instead of invoking the normal in-kernel suspend. Well, Nigel has been known to occasionally show up here, and he could definitly work out how to make that happen with you. > >> Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > >> universe are pointed away from Earth? > -- > Stefan Seyfried > R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?" > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out." > > This footer brought to you by insane German lawmakers: > SUSE Linux Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- Victor Lowther Ubuntu Certified Professional _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
