On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 21:58:40 +0200
Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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?

I meant s2both, duh...

grts Tim

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