[ltp] Re: suspend-to-disk (ACPI S3?)

[Eben King]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, André Wyrwa wrote:

> > 1. 'hibernate' suspends and restores correctly from within X.  But the
> >    text consoles still get messed up (80x25-size text in 80x25 scrolling 
> >    region on 80x50 screen, where only the upper half of each character 
> >    shows).  'reset' doesn't fix them.  I thought X was supposed to be 
> >    the hard one ...
> 
> What framebuffer driver are you using? Did you try plain VESA?

Framebuffer?  for text?  No idea... how do I check?  I've got, in the kernel
config under

Graphics support  --->

[*] Support for frame buffer devices  
...
<M>   ATI Radeon display support
[*]     DDC/I2C for ATI Radeon support

and from there under

Console display driver support  --->

[*]   Video mode selection support
<M> Framebuffer Console support

> >    None of buttons seem to do anything...  It would be really nice if 
> >    the lid switch invoked swsusp too.
> 
> Did you install/configure your acpid correctly?

Apparently I don't have it.  "locate acpid" turns up emptyhanded.  Where
does one get it?

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