On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Pierre Lombard wrote: > * Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-24 01:02]: > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Pierre Lombard wrote: > > > > The attached patch lets Xv work again after restoring a swsusp-frozen > > > system. > > > > > > Please Cc if necessary as I am not subscribed to Xpert mailing list. > > > I'm not sure I understand the point of this patch. NVResetVideo > > doesn't really do anything other than reset the brightness and > > contrast of the video overlay. Is this an early revision NV11 you > > have? A laptop maybe? > > It's a laptop video card: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 > Go] (rev a3) > > It's just a port of http://cpbotha.net/dri_resume.html. > I only have a vague idea of what's happening but it has just worked for > me (maybe it simply workarounds some swsusp bug indeed...)
It's more likely something strange that the combination system/video bios is doing, and probably only a problem on laptops by specific vendors. The patch seems harmless though, so I'll apply it (or a modification of it). Thanks, Mark. > > Without this patch xv does not work after you resume from a > swsusp'ended: the application are still able to use xv but the display > is no longer correct (for instance, mplayer only shows a blue window > after a swsusp restore, till I restart X). > > Some problems with nv driver and swsusp were reported there too: > http://lister.fornax.hu/pipermail/swsusp/2002-October/001003.html > http://lister.fornax.hu/pipermail/swsusp/2002-October/001021.html > > _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
