From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pedro Ribeiro Subject: Re: Using -rt and TuxOnIce at the same time Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:14:10 +0000 Message-ID: <74fd948d0911031514m528c2693g446d9edf863d528@mail.gmail.com> References: <74fd948d0911030640m11993d57hd634210307a6c623@mail.gmail.com> <1257287971.24428.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <74fd948d0911031445hc83661u2a0f31c5888d24@mail.gmail.com> <1257289019.24428.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org To: Ng Oon-Ee Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f207.google.com ([209.85.219.207]:41139 "EHLO mail-ew0-f207.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751433AbZKCXOH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:14:07 -0500 Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so2547690ewy.37 for ; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:14:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1257289019.24428.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2009/11/3 Ng Oon-Ee : > Please bottom-post when posting to a ML. Fixed your mail for this. > > On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 22:45 +0000, Pedro Ribeiro wrote: >> 2009/11/3 Ng Oon-Ee : >> > 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 fo= r hibernation. >> >> If you're not aware, TuxOnIce is a patch to enable "proper" >> >> hibernation in Linux, IMO much superior to the one provided by th= e >> >> 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 y= ou >> >> first. He also told me that we would like to work with you to sol= ve >> >> this problem, since TOX is also =A0going to be slowly integrated = in the >> >> mainline kernel over time. >> >> >> >> The problem is that the computer hangs and I have no way to captu= re >> >> 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 rapi= d >> >> succession of text appears and it captured partially on the secon= d >> >> (crappy) photo of the screen. On the 3rd photo shows how the syst= em >> >> stays indefinitely, and must be restarted by pressing the power b= utton >> >> for 3 secs. >> >> >> >> I know the material I provided is a bit crap, but please let me k= now >> >> 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 y= ou by >> > any chance use an nVidia card? Your issue sounds like an issue wit= h >> > hibernating with stock nVidia drivers without the ToI workarounds.= =2E. You >> > need to add "procsetting extra_pages_allowance 7500" to common.con= f 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. >> 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.= =2E. >> so no nVidia drivers here. >> >> Pedro > > I'm using 2.6.31.4-rt14. I would still look at your graphics card for > issues, honestly. Have you tried a 'dry-run' hibernate, or are you ju= st > doing a 'force' from the gnome menus? > > In any case, this is (probably) not rt-related, so unless you know th= at > having a ToI only kernel works and the only difference is RT (you may > have tested this already, you haven't specifically mentioned it thoug= h) > it doesn't yet belong on this ML. > > Yes the ToI works by itself, but the graphics card does have some issues when restoring - X doesn't restore correctly, I have to change to a VT and back to X after resume for it to restore properly - but apart from this the hibernate/resume cycle is fine with ToI alone. Pedro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-user= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html