APM suspend/resume quirk under 5.2.1-RC2

[Sergey A. Osokin]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:15:29PM -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Greetings list,
> 
> After I resolved my initial boot problems after upgrading
> from 5.2-RELEASE to 5.2.1-RC2 (more info about this here:
>     http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current/40834 )
> I have noticed the following:
> 
> 1.) 5.2.1-RC2 seems much more stable than 5.2-RELEASE. In
>     the two or three days I've been testing it I haven't
>     been able to crash it once during normal operation on
>     any of my 3 test machines (all ATA machines, BTW) -
>     something I just couldn't say of 5.2-RELEASE.
> 
>     Congrats to the FreeBSD developers! Good work!
> 
> 2.) I can now successfully suspend/resume from a VTY (sys console)
>     without booting with `boot -vD`.
> 
>     HOWEVER, if I try to suspend/resume while running X11,
>     I experience the following:
> 
>     a.) I can successfully suspend the machine if I switch to
>         a VTY first.
> 
>     b.) I can successfully RESUME the machine if I was looking
>         at a VTY when I suspended.
> 
>     c.) IF I switch to X11 with CTRL+F9 after resume, the
>         machine will briefly display my X11 screen, then the
>         screen will go blank and the machine will lock up.
> 
>         I'm not sure if the kernel is panicing, or if the
>         hardware has locked. However, my keyboard is
>         unresponsive (even SCRLK light) and any attempts to
>         suspend/resume or Fn+F7 to switch displays fail. I'll
>         try to hook up a serial console and find out for sure
>         in the next few days.
> 
> Does anyone know a workaround for (c) above?
> 
> Has anyone experienced the same behavior?
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2. XFree86:
> 
> XFree86-FontServer-4.3.0_2          =   up-to-date with port
> XFree86-NestServer-4.3.0_3          =   up-to-date with port
> XFree86-PrintServer-4.3.0_1         =   up-to-date with port
> XFree86-Server-4.3.0_12             <   needs updating (port has 4.3.0_13)
> XFree86-clients-4.3.0_5             =   up-to-date with port
> XFree86-documents-4.3.0             =   up-to-date with port
> XFree86-font100dpi-4.3.0            =   up-to-date with port
> XFree86-font75dpi-4.3.0             =   up-to-date with port
> XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.3.0          =   up-to-date with port
> XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.3.0    =   up-to-date with port
> XFree86-fontEncodings-4.3.0         =   up-to-date with port
> XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0          =   up-to-date with port
> XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6           =   up-to-date with port
> XFree86-manuals-4.3.0               =   up-to-date with port

Do you load glx module in your XF86Config?
Try to comment out strings with Load "glx", restart X, then try
to suspend you box.  It works here.

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