Seele Varcuzzo wrote:
> has anyone had ACPI recovering issues? anytime i go into a S3 suspend
> and try to recover, if im in x the screen tries to recover and sortof
> "melts" before it goes white with color vertical lines, and if im in
> the console i get no video, and it seems to go into a halt.  is this
> a video configuration problem or an acpi configuration problem?

When "suspend" happens, the suspending context needs to signal the
X server to restore the console state, before suspending, and then
put it back, as a result of a "resume".

This is necessary because X writes registers, and doesn't maintain
shadow copies in user space, and so can't put the card back into a
known state.  In many suspend models, the video card is actually
powered off and resets to the default state when it resumes, which
is not the state the X server expects it to be in.

As a workaround, you might be able to set one of the many acpi
sysctl options to prevent the video card from being powered down,
when everything else is (depends on your "suspend" -- if it's a
"suspend to disk", this won't be an option for you).

-- Terry

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