On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:59:30AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Thanks for the response. I couldn't actually find the struct you > > mentioned in 2.6.18-rc3 (I even grepped through the whole tree and > > didn't find it - I am using Jason's patched but I don't think it > > removed this). Is in the -mm2 code? I don't think it matters too > > much because using s2ram -r -f seems to give me much better power > > saving though I've had it hard-crash on resume once. > > Ok, never mind. > > > I also don't see any option in SuSE's powersave stuff to use > > radeontool so I end up having to call it manually form the command > > line (they support the other cmd line args to s2ram but not this as > > far as I can tell). Does anyone know if there is such an option? > > Talk to seife about that.
I will add this option to powersave. It seemed so esoteric that i left it out initially :-) > Actually, you may want to "simply" file a > bug report in bugzilla.novell.com. This will help, too :-) > > > Its actually not that easy to see the difference between using '-r' > > and not on the screen. When I just do s2ram -f the screen goes dark > > as it should but if I look at it from different angles I notice that > > there is still some ghostly text on the screen which was the last > > output of the suspend call. At first I thought it might just be a > > normal fade-out effect of the screen but now I'm pretty sure it > > corresponds to something not being powered off fully. Using the '-r' > > option I no longer see this 'ghost text'. Does this sound like a > > backlight or like something else? > > No, this looks like LCD powered but backlight off. I'm glad -r helps. > > > Is there anything you'd like me to check on this? > > No, I think your problems are solved. Maybe we should also experiment with "vbetool dpms off|on" and check if this has the same effect as radeontool. It might be more portable (and available on !radeon machines). -- 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 Suspend-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/suspend-devel
