On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:54:08 +0200
Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i just had an idea :-)
> 
> Is it possible, by using the uswsusp infrastructure, to freeze everything
> but the s2ram process during suspend to RAM? I mean the following:
> 
> start s2ram
> - chvt away from X
> - freeze everything else
> - save video state etc.
> - echo mem > /sys/power/state
> - post video etc.
> - thaw everything else
> 
> When doing it this way, nothing could interfere with video POST (on some
> machines the VBE calls take some seconds, the user might already press
> ALT-F7 in the meantime), the whole video resume business would be "almost"
> in-kernel.
> 
> Is this a good idea? Is it doable?

Just curious; why do you ever want to do s2ram instead of s2disk?

grts Tim

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