Re: Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon)

Nigel Cunningham
2005-02-04T22:26:21Z

Hi.

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 03:13, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > > > > Pavel, what do you think?
> > > > >
> > > > > Well, calling BIOS using vm86 is going to be quite a lot of code. If
> > > > > it is self-contained and not too huge, it is probably okay. It should
> > > > > help with quite a lot of cards, but who knows...
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes, it is probably worth trying.
> > > >
> > > > I'd love to see it too. Pavel, even if you don't want to merge it for a
> > > > while, we can always incorporate it in the Suspend2 patches so it gets
> > > > some testing. I know I'd try it on my i830 based Omnibook.
> > >
> > > You mean using suspend2 as test branch for suspend-to-RAM, too? Okay,
> > > why not.... It would be nice if suspend-to-RAM stuff was kept on the
> > > begining of the series so it does not become dependend on
> > > suspend-to-DISK parts....
> >
> > Well, we already have support for entering S3 instead of powering down
> > (makes for faster resume if the battery doesn't run out)... and I have
> > to get Suspend2 interacting with these patches as well.
>
> Is it like "suspend to disk, but end with suspend-to-RAM, so that if
> battery does not run out, you just do resume-from-RAM"? Wow. Nice
> trick...
>
> But it has same video problems as suspend-to-RAM, no? On how many
> machines does it work?

Yes, the same problems as suspend-to-RAM. I'm not sure how many machines
are using it at the moment. I'd love to try it on my laptop; that would
be one more, and I'd also try to get STR working on my HT desktop
machine (Radeon video) if I had the chance. Oh yeah... and I'm going to
have another go at merging. Get the idea I've got a lot I want to do? :>

Nigel
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