Re: suspend issue

[Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>]

On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 05:18 +0000, Justin Mattock wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 12:02 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >  > On Wed 2008-04-09 12:25:30, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> >  > > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 01:28 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >  > > > On Sun 2008-04-06 13:55:04, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> >  > > > > On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 04:03 +0000, Justin Mattock wrote:
> >  > > > > > Hello; I seem to have discovered something with echo mem > /sys/power/state.
> >  > > > > > I recompile the kernel and had forgotten to compile fglrx, when
> >  > > > > > performing a suspend without fglrx I was confronted with the dreaded
> >  > > > > > blank screen and a reboot. then as a test I compiled fglrx and loaded,
> >  > > > > > and to my amazement suspend reacted properly again.
> >  > > > >
> >  > > > > Yeah, but I it does not even work without X - console only!
> >  > > > >
> >  > > > > s2ram -f -p used to work since at least 2.6.20 ... and is now not
> >  > > > > anymore in 2.6.25-*
> >  > > >
> >  > > > Can you do git bisect?
> >  > >
> >  > > I just tried, and the problem is that 25-rc1 already fails to suspend -
> >  > > so I am not sure how I could get more insight into this failure *on
> >  > > resume*... any ideas?
> >  >
> >  > Well, 2.6.20 worked, so bisect should be easy, right?
> >
> >  I don't quite understand... 2.6.24 worked yes, but 2.6.25-rc1 didn't
> >  even *suspend*. However the problem lies not in suspending but no
> >  display on *resume*. So the bug is hidden by the hang on suspend and I
> >  don't see how I can check when resume broke.
> >
> >  Soeren
> >
> 
> Do you think the problem may be with the xserver? Did you upgrade to 7.3?
> Over here I did the upgrade to 7.3, but with testing with vesa there
> seems to be no module with the xserver for vesa
> or at least I haven't located it yet. On a positive note suspend does
> work with the ati driver installer, the negative side is
> it doesn't work without it. So from my perspective over here, Does
> xserver(7.3) have vesa support?

lets focus on console only - no Xserver - no X - because already for
that it doesn't work.

Soeren