Re: Re: Suspend2ram on Toshiba Tecra A3 OR problem with S3 on new 915PM chipset system appears to be with SATA/IDE

Nigel Cunningham
2005-04-29T06:57:16Z

Hi.

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 10:38, Tomasz Kojm wrote:
> In my case the video (integrated Intel 915GM graphic chipset) never
> resumes correctly. However, I've noticed very similar issues with the
> disk. Sometimes the hdd led is always on after resume, sometimes not.
> With the old SATA/IDE driver the disk seems to perform some operations
> but at the end the system crashes totally and even the caps lock doesn't
> work.
>
> As an open-source developer I know from autopsy how much such e-mail are
> frustrating to the developers. However it's impossible to me to prepare
> a valuable bug report on bugzilla - at the moment I see no way to
> reenable the LCD after resume (no acpi_sleep flag works on this system)
> and the system crashes every time eliminating remote access to a
> console.

Have you tried the various tools to post your video bios after resuming?
In my case, I needed to use both video_post and vbetool vbestate restore
to get a working configuration (and even then, it's not perfectly
reliable yet - I'm running XFree86 4.3, and have been told it's better
with Xorg. This is an i830, by the way.

Regards,

Nigel
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Nigel Cunningham
Software Engineer, Canberra, Australia
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Maintainer of Suspend2 Kernel Patches http://suspend2.net

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