[ltp] Mails from ATI about the Suspend-To-Ram problem with fglrx drivers

[Mario Limonciello]

Matt Graham wrote:

>On Wednesday 13 April 2005 13:06, after a long battle with technology, 
>Michael Stilkerich wrote:
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>>* Mario Limonciello <mario.mailing@gmail.com> [2005-04-13 19:01]:
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>>>radeonfb, then you need to save your vbestate, before going back
>>>into X you will have to restore it.  As long as you do this, your
>>>fine.
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>>uhm, is there any way on automating this? I.e. is there a
>>configuration possibility somewhere that allows binding a user
>>defined action to the ALT-CTRL-F? bindings?
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>Yes, but it won't be as easy as you might expect.  X captures a number 
>of key combinations directly; Ctrl-Alt- (Backspace, keypad+, keypad-, 
>F[1-12].).  The xorg.conf options "DontZap", "DontVTSwitch", and 
>"DontZoom" can make X ignore those key combinations.  You could 
>theoretically put the DontVTSwitch option in your xorg.conf, then use 
>xbindkeys to execute a shell script when you pressed Ctrl-Alt-F? .
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>The real problem is that the shell script thus executed may not be able 
>to do "chvt N", since root (not the user) probably owns the vt that X 
>is running on.  I suppose you could make chvt SUID, though....
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The other problem is that root needs to be the one reading the vbestate 
as well.