Using VESA to restore display settings on resume

Vladimir Grebenschikov vova at fbsd.ru
Wed Mar 2 23:40:15 PST 2005


В ср, 02/03/2005 в 14:02 -0800, Kevin Oberman пишет:
>> From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova at fbsd.ru>
>> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:36:51 +0300
>> Sender: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova at vbook.fbsd.ru>
>> 
>> В ср, 02/03/2005 в 11:18 -0800, Kevin Oberman пишет:
>> >> From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova at fbsd.ru>
>> >> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 23:31:15 +0300
>> >> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
>> >> 
>> >> В пн, 28/02/2005 в 20:26 +0000, Ian Dowse пишет:
>> >> >In message <200502281016.aa49779 at salmon.maths.tcd.ie>, Ian Dowse writes> :
>> >> >>In message <1109545918.1537.8.camel at localhost>, Vladimir Grebenschikov>  writes:
>> >> >>>Also if I try this patch with vesa module loaded it just carsh in vm8> 6
>> >> >>>mode on zzz (curproc acpiconf).
>> >> >>
>> >> >>It is probably necessary to get this working with VESA to have much
>> >> >>of a chance of it helping, since otherwise only the basic VGA
>> >> >>registers will be saved and restored.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>One possible reason for the vm86 crash is that it appears our VESA
>> >> >>code cannot handle saving more than 4k of state data. Does it make
>> >> >>any difference if you revert the part of the patch that changed
>> >> >>STATE_MOST to STATE_ALL? i.e. change the two uses of STATE_ALL in
>> >> >>vesa.c back to STATE_MOST. I found that with SAVE_MOST, I needed
>> >> >>to switch to X and back before the console would display, but the
>> >> >>backlight did come on immediately.
>> >> >
>> >> >I've updated the patch at
>> >> >
>> >> >	http://people.freebsd.org/~iedowse/vesa_restore.diff
>> >> >
>> >> >so that the VESA code allows up to 8k of state storage and will
>> >> >fail if the BIOS claims to need more space. Could you try this with
>> >> >the vesa module loaded and with both 0 and 1 for hw.acpi.reset_video?
>> >> 
>> >> I've rechecked patch with fresh kernel build and firewire console.
>> >> 
>> >> It does not panics and does not awake :( 
>> >> As in previous variant it sleeps ok, but on awake it only spin up HDD.
>> >> No any other activity seen, it does not react on keys, firewire console
>> >> is dead.
>> >> It does not answer on network activity.
>> >> 
>> >> Probably It hangs while try to restore console, and I should try to
>> >> disable console at all ? 
>> >
>> >Is the disk active LED on? Many systems have had trouble with this,
>> >although I thought Soren had fixed this.
>> 
>> Both led and sound, it spin-up, shows some activity by both led and
>> sound, and then stop any activity.
>> 
>> Probably I should try kernel without ata ? (only md for root) 
>
>Only if the LED comes on and stays on is it an ATA issue. If it seems to
>come back but never finishes, it is something else.
>
>Can you connect to the system over the net after resume? 

No, I can't ping machine, and firewire console is dead.

>If so, it's probably a display issue, as you seem to have suspected. I was just
>bringing up the ATA issue in case you really had two problems. Seems
>like you do not.

Anyway, I'll try kernel without ATA to be sure.

-- 
Vladimir B. Grebenchikov
vova at fbsd.ru


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