Sony VAIO - suspend/resume works, but SLOW

[Eric Anderson]

Fabian Keil wrote:
> Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>- when in X, and I do acpiconf -s3, it does indeed suspend.  Resuming 
>>appears to be coming back, but my xwindows is locked up (no mouse 
>>movement, no screen updates, and a little screen distortion at the
>>top - so a video driver issue?).  My caps lock and num lock keys
>>seemed to work, but I couldn't break from X.  I think did the (not so
>>smart) break to debugger, which left me in a state I couldn't recover
>>from.  Reboot ensued.  I have a Radeon card in this laptop.
> 
> 
> To handle this problem I put
> 
> acpi_video_load="YES"
> 
> in /boot/loader.conf and
> 
> hw.acpi.reset_video=0
> hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch=1 
> 
> in /etc/sysctl.conf.
> 
> However there is an already known conflict between
> acpi_video.ko and radeon.ko, if I load both as modules,
> I can't use DRI.
> 
> If I put "device radeondrm" in the kernel, I can use
> DRI, but lose the resume function.
> 
> 
>>So two questions:
>>When does one need the reset_video switch on/off?
> 
> 
> I have it off all the time.

Thanks!  I followed your instructions, and now suspend/resume works from 
X!

A few more things to solve, and it'll be 100%!

Thanks again for everyone's help!
Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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