[ltp] T23 Suspend2Ram and Suspend2Disk issues (savage framebuffer and tpb)

[Tino Keitel]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 13:23:17 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I had stable and reliable suspend to RAM and suspend to disk (using
> suspend2 patches) on my T23.
> 
> Now I switched to a framebuffer console using savagefb, to get a
> fbsplash progress display for suspend2. However, this seems to break
> suspend to RAM. The LCD will be switched off, but the moon LED blinks
> and the WLAN card is still active, it won't suspend. Can this be
> solved, and how?

Ok, I'll try shorter questions:

Can I use savagefb and suspend/resume successfully using ACPI S3
suspend at all, or is this a general problem?

> I also reactivated tpb (the ThinkPad OSD utility). When I suspend to
> disk while the ThinkLight is switched on, X seems to hang after resume.
> I can see a garbled tpb display in this case. I suppose that tpb tries
> to show that the ThinkLight is now switched off, which causes the hang.

Is anyone able to run tpb with the OSD enabled, switch on the
ThinkLight, suspend to disk, and resume?

Regards,
Tino