[ltp] Re: strange resume behaviour

Andrew Barr linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:15:57 -0400


On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 11:34 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
> Does that mean unloading/reloading them won't be effective?

The DRM driver, no. They generally don't do power management and aren't
affected by suspend/resume cycles.

The Xorg drivers do some stuff like softbooting cards, but you cannot
unload them without restarting X, which generally defeats the purpose of
suspend.
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