[ltp] Re: Nearing nirvana with a T40P

[Thomas Bodenmann]

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.

I have a T40p and I tried both VESA fb (vga=834) and radeonfb - the
machine won't wakeup from sleep properly.
 
> 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.

I've had that problem too, then i turned "APIC" support off. Sleep mode
now works fine in console (default mode) and X. With vga=834 the machine
hangs when waking up.

regards, Thomas