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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [patch] suspend: update documentation
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:05:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050712090510.GG1854@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)

Update suspend documentation.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>

---
commit 8972d0ff145879e53416ac77c4cd096fd3cfe227
tree f901592e816f4cfae7383f443b21a13f67a644f8
parent a6500a8820a9b271105fe92e5d3013f7c2875b44
author <pavel@amd.(none)> Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:04:31 +0200
committer <pavel@amd.(none)> Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:04:31 +0200

 Documentation/power/swsusp.txt |    7 +++++++
 Documentation/power/video.txt  |    9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
--- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
@@ -318,3 +318,10 @@ As a rule of thumb use encrypted swap to
 system is shut down or suspended. Additionally use the encrypted
 suspend image to prevent sensitive data from being stolen after
 resume.
+
+Q: Why we cannot suspend to a swap file?
+
+A: Because accessing swap file needs the filesystem mounted, and
+filesystem might do something wrong (like replaying the journal)
+during mount. [Probably could be solved by modifying every filesystem
+to support some kind of "really read-only!" option. Patches welcome.]
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


             reply	other threads:[~2005-07-12  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-12  9:05 Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-07-12 17:24 ` [patch] suspend: update documentation randy_dunlap
2005-07-12 21:48   ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-07-12 22:51     ` Pavel Machek
2005-07-12 23:23       ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-07-12 22:48   ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-06 11:09 Pavel Machek
2006-01-06 16:46 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-06 16:51   ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-06 20:53   ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-05 11:37 Pavel Machek

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