[ltp] A31p hangs on unsuspend

[Matthias Posseldt]

On Tuesday 20 May 2003 19:19, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 02:54:42AM -0400, Stan Pinte wrote:
> > More information:
> >
> > The screen is actually dead after resume...
> >
> > if someone ssh to my machine, then su and "init 5", the screen wakes
> > up...
> >
> > would it be X's fault? XFree86-4.3.0-15
>
> Possibly.  Try these things:
>
> 1) Switch away from X (by using control-alt-F1) before suspending.
>
> 2) On the T40p, using XFree86 4.3, after XFree86 tries to turn off the
> screen, it isn't able to re-enable the screen.  However, the screen
> can be revived by typing control-alt-F1 (to switch away from X to the
> standard Linux console), then typing fn-F3 (to turn off the display),
> and then typing fn-F3 again (to turn the display again).

3) Apply the radeon resume patch which fixes these problems (for me on a 
A30p). It is post XFree 4.3, but applied to some Debian packages and Gentoo 
ebuilds. You may check your distribution.

Ciao, Matthias
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