On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:58:12PM +0100, Francisco Jerez wrote: > "Richard Schwarting" <[email protected]> writes: > > > Suspending without X has the same effect as suspending with X. A > > blank screen that slowly bleeds white across it. > > > > vbetool doesn't seem to help. I will investigate this issue more > > outside of X. > > > > Do you still need anything re: the silicon motion driver? I don't > > suffer corruption under EXA or XAA and until I have suspend and resume > > sorted out, I don't think there are any more issues on my system. > > Hi. It looks like the register state gets screwed up when suspending. It > could be a hardware bug.
The ACPI spec doesn't require register state to be saved or restored over suspend - it's up to the drivers to reprogram that. > Maybe, it could be workarounded by tweaking some of the memory control > registers, I haven't tried yet, it seems that "vbetool vbestate restore" > in text mode after resuming does the trick for me. That's a common workaround. -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
