Re: S3 wakeup code

[Mark Santcroos <marks-h3GR0owD+wQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:39:34AM -0400, David G Hamblen wrote:
> > > : S3 refrigerates everything and suspends, leaving the display white.
> > > : Resuming turns the backlight off.  I can retrieve the backlight with the
> > > : LCD/CRT button.
> > >
> > > I've seen exactly the same problem under FreeBSD which has supported
> > > S3 state for a long time.  I've seen the problem going back at least 9
> > > months.
> >
> > This needs to be handled by the video driver afaik.
> 
> I'm using the vesafb driver; I also tried with non-framebuffer VGA console
> with the same behavior.  I'm not running XF86 for these experiments.
> Should I look into the vesafb code?

I don't think there is a generic solution for this. We need specific code 
for every video driver that needs it.

That's my educated guess though.

Mark

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