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From: Alan Cox <alan-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: acpi_sleep=s3_bios and Thinkpads
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 16:12:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088867538.9981.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1088852201.3733.22.camel-myFlNLNQP+Q@public.gmane.org>

On Sad, 2004-07-03 at 11:56, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Having tested around 6 different models of Thinkpad, we've found that
> passing acpi_sleep=s3_bios always helps if there is no framebuffer
> running, but tends to break things if there is a framebuffer. Is this
> worth some sort of DMI hackery in order to make it more likely that
> things will just work?

The BIOS will re-init to vga text mode for the general case. So you'd
need instead to do some work on the pci resume path of the video drivers
to do mode resets and the like. You may also need to play
with vga routing but that ought to be set right by the BIOS.

Does switching console unbreak resume ?



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-03 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-03 10:56 acpi_sleep=s3_bios and Thinkpads Matthew Garrett
     [not found] ` <1088852201.3733.22.camel-myFlNLNQP+Q@public.gmane.org>
2004-07-03 15:12   ` Alan Cox [this message]
     [not found]     ` <1088867538.9981.1.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2004-07-12 22:47       ` Pavel Machek

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