Re: Re: Resume -> higher power drain?

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2005-hi6Y0CQ0nG0@public.gmane.org>]

Stefan Seyfried schrieb:
> On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 10:02:25PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> 
>>>So at least for my T42p I can recommend NOT to use vbetool at all for
>>>suspend/resume but rather to use s3_bios!
>>
>>Can you suggest a patch to Documentation/power/video.txt?
> 
> 
> according to some X guys, vbetool vbestate save/restore is "problematic"
> at least and should only be used as a measure of last resort, if everything
> else fails.
> 
> That said, a recent X.org radeon driver should post the card, bring the light
> back on (it does on my Dell D600) and make vbetool unnecessary on ATI radeon
> chipsets

A recent X.org radeon driver will switch on the backlight and crash
afterwards on my Samsung P35, exactly the thing "vbetool post" does.
However, POSTing is not enough for my card, I have to restore the
vesa state to actually see something on screen.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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