Re: S3 wakeup code

David G Hamblen
2003-07-25T13:39:34Z

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Mark Santcroos wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 07:25:04AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307250755460.2827-100000-zmH7q5lE+0tBz13eCZem0Q@public.gmane.org>
> > David G Hamblen <dave-RfZrpLcwWZ/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> writes:
> > : 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?

dave