Hi,

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:38:26PM +0000, Alan Mycroft wrote:
 
> > Yes. But please check if it also works from the text console or only from X.
> > Maybe you need additional options there.
> 
> Stefan,
> 
> Yes.  Sorry for being naive about this.  From X, s2ram -f works as I said.
> However, testing vt4 (ctrl/alt/f4), I find that...
> DOC> if the first try already succeeds, everything is fine. Send us
> DOC> the output of s2ram -i. If it doesn't, try the following variations:
> DOC>    * s2ram -f          <==============
> Fails [relatively harmlessly in that the screen is unreadable after resume
> for vt's until I switch to vt7 (X), after which all vt's work.]
> DOC>    * s2ram -f -a 1         <==============
> Fails similarly
> DOC>    * s2ram -f -a 2         <==============
> Works -- thanks for asking this question.

Thanks for testing, i'll try to make it more clear in the documentation that
this is necessary, it is an often encountered mistake, so probably the docs
are not too clear about that.
Basically, i am always suspicious if "-f" i the only option needed :-)

> DOC>    * s2ram -f -a 1 -s 
> I didn't try these (should I?).

No, not necessary. If it works, -a 2 is "good enough" :-)

> > (offtopic here :-)
> 
> > [snipped]
> 
> That's really useful information -- thank you again (30 secs off-topic has
> saved me much searching for starting pointers -- which is what I was lacking).

Yes, i will try to document this a bit better, too as soon as i get to it.

Have fun :-)
-- 
Stefan Seyfried
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices        |              "Any ideas, John?"
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg  | "Well, surrounding them's out." 

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