From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5-git 0/3] x86_pc and ACPI support /sys/devices/.../wakeup Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:48:55 -0700 Message-ID: <200704051648.56288.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <200704051248.40745.david-b@pacbell.net> <200704051620.59918.david-b@pacbell.net> <20070405233024.GA12641@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.213]:23236 "HELO smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1767441AbXDEXs6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 19:48:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070405233024.GA12641@srcf.ucam.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 05 April 2007 4:30 pm, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:20:59PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > > Same thing with S3 ... except in that case the display was trashed; I > > was able to ssh in, and switch the vt from raw console to X using the > > PS2 keyboard, but that's about it. > > Excellent news. Regarding the display, you may want to give vbetool a go > - there's nothing in Linux to reinitialise the display hardware on most > machines, and nothing in the ACPI spec that requires the firmware to. That system happens to be 32 bits, but a similar one is 64 bits ... has vbetool been made to work on x86_64 yet? - Dave