Re: S3 wakeup code

Pavel Machek
2003-07-25T15:31:10Z

Hi!

> > > : 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 believe you need to use specific kernel fb driver, and write
suspend/resume code for it :-(.
Pavel
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