Re: Using -rt and TuxOnIce at the same time

[Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com>]

Hi,
are you using the 31.4-rt14 kernel? Because I had it working before
with the 29.4-rt22!

To answer your question, I have a Intel X4500 integrated video card...
so no nVidia drivers here.

Pedro


2009/11/3 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 14:40 +0000, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm interested in using both the -rt patchset and the TuxOnIce for hibernation.
>> If you're not aware, TuxOnIce is a patch to enable "proper"
>> hibernation in Linux, IMO much superior to the one provided by the
>> base kernel.
>>
>> Anyway, there is a collision in fork.c which is easily solvable, but
>> apart from that the patches don't collide. However, when I try to
>> hibernate the computer just hangs up. I brought this up on the
>> TuxOnIce mailing list and the main developer told me to contact you
>> first. He also told me that we would like to work with you to solve
>> this problem, since TOX is also  going to be slowly integrated in the
>> mainline kernel over time.
>>
>> The problem is that the computer hangs and I have no way to capture
>> the output. The only thing I could do was to take some photos of the
>> screen. The first photo is what appears immediately after the
>> beggining of the hibernation process. After a few seconds, a rapid
>> succession of text appears and it captured partially on the second
>> (crappy) photo of the screen. On the 3rd photo shows how the system
>> stays indefinitely, and must be restarted by pressing the power button
>> for 3 secs.
>>
>> I know the material I provided is a bit crap, but please let me know
>> how can I help you.
>>
>> The zipped file containing the photos is here
>> http://www.2shared.com/file/8900964/61ee7898/rt-crashtar.html
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Pedro Ribeiro
>
> Hi, I do have RT and ToI working together on Arch Linux here. Do you by
> any chance use an nVidia card? Your issue sounds like an issue with
> hibernating with stock nVidia drivers without the ToI workarounds... You
> need to add "procsetting extra_pages_allowance 7500" to common.conf or
> something like that.
>
> I know I did a single successful hibernate and restart with my RT and
> ToI hybrid (am currently using BFS/ToI for daily use) for testing
> purposes, so it does work, for me at least.
>
>
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