From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Questions about vbestate Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:55:42 +0000 Message-ID: <1106096142.7368.32.camel@tyrosine> References: <200501181912.19644.stefandoesinger@gmx.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200501181912.19644.stefandoesinger-RbZlAiThDcE@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 19:12 +0100, Stefan D=C3=B6singer wrote: > *If I save the card's state with vbesate before calling the post-routine = and=20 > restoring the state afterwards makes switching back to X work again. I'd recommend saving the vbe state on boot, and not on every suspend. I'm not sure why, but there certainly seems to be some amount of information that's lost otherwise. Saving on suspend seems to make a large amount of hardware unhappy - I've only found one machine that complains about it on boot. --=20 Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt