Mark, any news on this issue? I'm seeing the same problems with suspend on a Dell Latitude C600 with a ATI Mobility M3...
Lars Mark Santcroos wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:22:04AM +0900, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > >>>Do you think that there is a change that this is in the direction of DPMS, >>>or is that very unliky? I tried to find the spec for DPMS but it seems to >>>be a closed on (at least to non-members). >> >>It seems that old laptops don't have VGA specific ACPI objects, so >>many people will be happy if we can implement non-ACPI VGA driver w/ >>ATI chips hack. >>BTW, have you checked for XFree86 code? Hopefully we might find >>some hints on DPMS for ATI chips. > > > Ok, listen to this ;-) > > I think DPMS might be very related, because when I suspend from X and > resume again everything is (almost) fine!! > > 1. I start up the machine > 2. startx > 3. I enter S1 either by acpiconf / closing the lid / ctrl-esc (sleep key) > 4. Screen goes to console and stays on > 5. I resume with power key / open lid > 6. Screen turns black > 7. Few seconds later X is in front of me again! > 8. If I now go back to the console (ctrl-f1) the console is still black > > I also tried the scenario where I suspend on the console, then resume > again, which turns the screen black. I then startx again and my screen is > back again. This is a major step IMHO. > > I already looked at the DPMS code in X and we have to extract that > basically. > > Mark > -- Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> USC Information Sciences Institute
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