Re: S3 wakeup code

[Pavel Machek <pavel-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

> My problem is the backlight on a Dell Inspiron 8100 with the nVidia VGA
> controller. Everything seems to work as expected in all modes detected
> (S0, S1, S3, S4bios, S4, S5), except that the backlight stays on after
> "echo [1,3] > /proc/acpi/sleep".  S1 just refrigerates everything, and
> leaves the display on, resume works fine.
> 
> S3 refrigerates everything and suspends, leaving the display white.
> Resuming turns the backlight off.  I can retrieve the backlight with the
> LCD/CRT button.
> 
> Both S4's behave properly (full power off/restore with the power button).
> 
> What part of the code should I look at to attack this problem (ACPI
> tables, linux/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/*, or linux/drivers/acpi/*)?  DSDT
> compiles ok with the iasl assembler/disassembler, and Windows XP goes into
> standby properly; so I assume that the ACPI tables can be driven by the
> OS.  Perhaps something along the lines of the asus_acpi code?

Video is hard to do... You should write specific suspend/resume
support for your video card. Bad luck if you are using vesafb :-(.

> > Wakeup code should *not* be machine-specific, but video card
> > save/restore is obviously video-card specific (and you basically can't
> > get docs). Write beeping code in 8086 assembly and start debuggin'
> > ;-))).


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