On Monday, November 28, 2011 12:15:25 pm Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Thursday 24 November 2011 01:33 am, Sebastian Chmielewski wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:50:58 -0500 > > > > Jung-uk Kim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Usually, we cannot resume console on NVIDIA graphics, which often > > > times lack or has incomplete VBE save/restore state function. > > > > I had kldunload nvidia in rc.suspend. Isn't that enough? > > No, it doesn't (can't) save/restore GPU state. In fact, nvidia.ko may > help when you are suspending from X11. At least in theory, it should > be able to save/restore GPU state correctly. However, a NVIDIA > engineer once told me that the code path wasn't tested well because > he couldn't find a right laptop to test at the time. It was long > ago, though.
Yes, the nvidia folks would probably work on fixing suspend and resume of nvidia GPUs if we could point them at a laptop for which suspend and resume otherwise worked. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
