[ltp] Re: ACPI Hibernate and Suspend Strange behavior 2.6.7/-mm1

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > > And, if I would shine
> > > > a bright light on the screen, I could make out text on it.  In other
> > > > words, the backlight was off but it was still displaying stuff.
> > > 
> > > I cannot reproduce that (T41), but maybe I'm looking at the wrong angle or
> > > your eyes are better. In any case I understand that this image is very
> > > faint.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure whether this is actually part of the problem. The
> > > liquid crystals might just keep their current orientation, or there might
> > > be some residual charge in the driver circuit. Do you want to take your
> > > display apart and check with a voltmeter? I dont't :-)
> > 
> > If it is still there after half an hour, its certainly part of the problem.
> > LCD crystals loose the orientation in seconds, IIRC.
> > 				Pavel
> 
> I found that on my T40, if I am using the radeonfb built into the kernel
> I cannot see a ghost image, but if I use VESA or vga=normal, I can see a
> ghost in S3.

Well, you can't really expect to run without driver for hardware
(VESA or vga=normal) and still get hardware powersaved correctly.

							Pavel

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