On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:40:47AM +0200, Davide Mancusi wrote: > Stefan Seyfried wrote: > > What framebuffer are you using? vesafb or a hardware-specific one? > > > vesafb, as a result of a long and unsuccessful attempt at using the > accelerated 3D graphics driver in X. > > I assume that you already tried "-f -a 3"? This is usually needed to switch > > back to the correct graphics mode on framebuffer-using machines. > > > Actually no, I had tried it only with vga=0 (and of course it worked all > the same). I tried it now with the framebuffer device, and it looks like > it's working... at least the machine comes back in a usable state.
ok, so -f -a3 seems to work. > X is a totally different story, though. I tried to start X, switch to > VT1 and s2ram the whole thing, but whooops... blink, blink, kernel > panic, both with vga=0 and vga=771 (my fb mode). Same thing happens if I > suspend to RAM, resume and then start X. Hm, what type of graphics card is this and which X driver does it use? > > If you are using the latest s2ram from CVS, you could also try the (still > > undocumented, i know) "s2ram -f -p -m" option, which also does a "save the > > video mode before suspend, post the card after resume, then reset the video > > mode" like "-a 3" does. > I'm using the version in Debian unstable, 0.2-2. I wanted to try the CVS > version, but reading the HOWTO got me a little scared about the idea of > playing with initrd since I'm not sure I know what I would be doing, > since I am using the prepackaged Debian kernel. If you knowlegdeable > folks could point me in the right direction, I would be glad to help. Well, you could just compile the CVS, _not_ install it but use s2ram from the source directory with "./s2ram -f -p -m". OTOH, if -a 3 is working fine, there is no need to try this. -- Stefan Seyfried | "Please, just tell people QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices | to use KDE." SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | -- Linus Torvalds ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Suspend-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/suspend-devel
