Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

Vojtech Pavlik
2005-02-17T10:15:33Z

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:16:45AM -0500, Len Brown wrote:

> Pavel,
> I think that it is the BIOS' job on S3-suspend
> to save the video mode. On S3-resume the BIOS should
> re-POST and restore the video mode.

Should.

But this definitely is not the case on about 80+% of notebooks.

You can save the video state through VESA VBE, and restore it on resume,
but if the BIOS didn't re-POST the video, this will often fail.

> While Linux's X drivers may be able to handle the case
> where X is running -- that doesn't help us with the
> cases where X is not running (a case that Windows
> presumably does not have).
>
> Besides updated X drivers, which may have complicated
> restore routines for complicated modes, all the other
> techniques for restoring video from Linux are
> hit/miss workarounds for broken platforms.
>
> To completely solve the Linux S3 video restore issue,
> we need to push the platform and BIOS vendors.

That's correct.

> What am I missing?

I'm not sure if you can push the whole industry at once.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR