[ltp] Re: strange resume behaviour

David Abrahams linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:00:52 -0400


Martin Lorenz <martin@lorenz.eu.org> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:02:04PM -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
>> Martin Lorenz <martin@lorenz.eu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > yes, I already asked a lot of questions here and I am sorry to add another
>> > one...
>> >
>> > since today afternoon I can no longer resume from suspend-to-ram.
>> > I played around a bit with my xorg.conf and installed the new i810 driver
>> > for X. I am not aware to have changed anything else.
>> >
>> > now the symptom: when I suspend to ram and resume all seems to be ok, except
>> > that I don't get my screen back.
>> >
>> > More specifically: The machine is still responsive and I can shutdown
>> > blindly but I can do nothing to switch the screen back on.
>> >
>> 
>> Been there; done that.  On my machine I needed
>> 
>>   MODULES="fglrx"
>> 
> isn't fglrx an xorg module?

It's a proprietary video driver from ATI.  My point was that you might
need to do the same thing with whatever module runs video on *your*
machine.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com