On 24/08/08 at 18:52 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> tags 491202 moreinfo help
> thanks
> 
> Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 21/08/08 at 10:50 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> If acpi-support is working for you, could you please post a list loaded
> >> modules right before the suspend (or better, the diff between pm-utils
> >> and acpi-support).
> >>
> >> Does your computer require any quirks (lshal | grep quirk)?
> >> Can you experiment with a different set of quirks [1]?
> > 
> > After a lot more testing:
> > acpi-support's legacy mode still fails sometimes (but rarely -- about
> > once every 20 suspend/resumes cycles). It never failed with 2.6.24, so
> > there's a kernel regression somewhere.
> 
> What about the latest 2.6.26-3 kernel in unstable?

Same problem.

> > But using pm-suspend, it fails a lot more frequently. Using pm-suspend
> > --quirk-vbe-post --quirk-vbestate-restore (quirks suggested by lshal |
> > grep quirks), it fails about one third of the times. I also tried with
> > --quirk-vbemode-restore, with no improvement.
> > 
> > I think that all of this might be related to the fact that my laptop
> > (Dell Latitude D610) is shipped using either an intel video card, or an
> > ATI one (my case). Maybe the work on this laptop was done by someone
> > with an Intel video card.
> 
> Which graphics card is it exactly, what driver do you use (open/closed
> source)? Do you use a framebuffer (radeonfb)?

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility
Radeon X300]

I use the opensource driver, no framebuffer.

> With ATI cards and the opensource driver I had good experiences with
> using the s3_bios+s3_mode quirk.

Well it used to work very well for me as well ;)

> Looks very much like a kernel regression and I'm not sure if there is
> that much that can be done within pm-utils.
> Nonetheless it would be interesting what acpi-support (legacy mode) does
> differently so it doesn't fail that often.
> 
> CCing Bart, maybe he can share his insight.
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