Re: Help with S3 on an Acer Travelmate c110 [SOLVED]

Pavel Machek
2005-06-20T20:45:15Z

Hi!
> >Can you provide documentation patch?
>
> How's this? I changed the Travelmate C300 entry because the
> documentation I found to get the C110 working was actually for the C300
> - it just happened to work for the C110 too
> (http://www.umich2.com/files/2004/12/linux_on_the_ac.html).

I don't like to group various machines together, so I ended up with:

Pavel

diff --git a/Documentation/power/video.txt b/Documentation/power/video.txt
--- a/Documentation/power/video.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/video.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ There are a few types of systems where v
POSTing bios works. Ole Rohne has patch to do just that at
http://dev.gentoo.org/~marineam/patch-radeonfb-2.6.11-rc2-mm2.

+(8) on some systems, you can use the video_post utility mentioned here:
+ http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3670. Do echo 3 > /sys/power/state
+ && /usr/sbin/video_post - which will initialize the display in console mode.
+ If you are in X, you can switch to a virtual terminal and back to X using
+ CTRL+ALT+F1 - CTRL+ALT+F7 to get the display working in graphical mode again.
+
Now, if you pass acpi_sleep=something, and it does not work with your
bios, you'll get a hard crash during resume. Be careful. Also it is
safest to do your experiments with plain old VGA console. The vesafb
@@ -64,7 +70,8 @@ Model hack (or
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Acer Aspire 1406LC ole's late BIOS init (7), turn off DRI
Acer TM 242FX vbetool (6)
-Acer TM C300 vga=normal (only suspend on console, not in X), vbetool (6)
+Acer TM C110 video_post (8)
+Acer TM C300 vga=normal (only suspend on console, not in X), vbetool (6) or video_post (8)
Acer TM 4052LCi s3_bios (2)
Acer TM 636Lci s3_bios vga=normal (2)
Acer TM 650 (Radeon M7) vga=normal plus boot-radeon (5) gets text console back

Pavel

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