does your video resume after a suspend to ram with kernel-2.6.15-1.1823_FC4

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sat Jan 7 05:36:57 UTC 2006


On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:30:39PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
 > Is suspend & resume working on your laptop?
 > 
 > I was told that one of the goals in FC5 is to make laptop
 > suspend/restore work.  I've been testing with various kernels and have
 > been having the same problem since 2.6.13.  The system will suspend,
 > but when I resume, the video stays dark.  This is happening now with
 > the testing kernel-2.6.15-1.1823_FC4

You may need to run vbetool before/after.  For a lot of video hardware,
we don't know enough details to bring the screen back to life.
On these systems, we re-run the video bios to reinit the screen
using vbetool.

you can find this tool in pm-utils.

		Dave




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