[ltp] Nearing nirvana with a T40P

[Richard Neill]

Dear Neil,

I had lots of (other) weirdness with X and suspend. This script has 
basically fixed it - try running my suspend_AND_resume script and see if 
it helps. It also prevents X crashing during a suspend as it usually does.

http://www.richardneill.org/a22p-mdk9-1.html#apm

Best wishes

Richard


Neil Weisenfeld wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 10:16, mukesh agrawal wrote:
> 
>>On 29 Jun 2003, Neil Weisenfeld wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Another related issue here is that I need to switch to a VT before
>>>suspending or hibernating.  The APM script feature does *not* do it for
>>>me.  I still have to manually switch, and then upon resume the apm
>>>script feature will switch back.  But, if I rely on the apmscript
>>>feature to 'chvt 1', it doesn't work.  I've tried moving the 'chvt' and
>>>adding a sleep to apmscript, but it hasn't helped.
>>
>>Is this true even if you use VESA fb? I'm running VESA fb and XFree 4.3
>>on a T40 with Radeon 9000 (but not FireGL), and "apm --suspend" works
>>fine.
>>
> 
> 
> Hmm... I'm a bit of a newbie w.r.t. Linux framebuffers.  Basically,
> using the linux default text-mode console I can sleep with Fn-F4
> happily, but have to do the chvt silliness to get the screen back. 
> Trying loading graphical console e.g. vga=0x307 works, but I pretty much
> can't sleep at all now.  It will shut things down and seem like it's
> sleeping, but the crescent moon doesn't light up and "apm --suspend"
> which X is active locks up the machine altogether.
> 
> Collating people's experiences here with the various video setups it
> seems like people have systems that work substantially different from
> one another.  It would be interesting to see what people's set-ups are
> really like.
> 
> Maybe time to investigate 2.5 kernel for kicks.
> 
> Thanks to everyone for your responses.
> 
> 
> Neil
> 

-- 
rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk  **  http://www.richardneill.org
Richard Neill, Trinity College, Cambridge, CB21TQ, U.K.