amd64/115194: LCD screen remains blank after Dell XPS M1210 lid is closed and reopened.

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 6 17:24:29 UTC 2010


On Monday 06 December 2010 12:00 pm, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 06/12/2010 18:48 Jung-uk Kim said the following:
> > On Sunday 05 December 2010 07:56 am, Bruce Cran wrote:
> >> On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 10:10:15 GMT
> >>
> >> Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>>  is this still an issue with recent revisions of head or
> >>> stable/8?
> >>
> >> It's still a problem on my XPS M1530: the only workaround is to
> >> suspend from within X11 using a version of the closed-source
> >> 'nvidia' driver built using ACPI support.
> >
> > Generally speaking, we cannot fix NVIDIA resume issues without
> > help of closed-source driver unless we reverse-engineer their
> > driver and figure out their power management magic.  Probably
> > Linux KMS driver for X.org nouveau may give us some hints but I
> > gave up. :-(
>
> And, just in case, let me also point out, to Bruce :-), that the PR
> at hand is about different hardware.  So it's not clear if we have
> a single problem here or two different problems.

This PR is about Intel 945GM and it should be fine with the latest 
vesa.ko loaded.  These two problems are not related.

Jung-uk Kim


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