Re: [ACPI] Good news: video can be revived after S3 on Samsung P30 (Radeon 9200)

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I'd like to see that as a "standard suspend/resume procedure" in a machine 
manual...

Talk about a -hack- ;)
This is one of those things not to mention during one of those "reasons to use 
linux over windows" debates :P

Oisín

On Friday 26 November 2004 08:47, Matthias Hentges wrote:
> How to revive the monitor:
>
> - Start X11 with radeon driver (DRI can be enabled) on :0
> - Start X11 with *vesa* driver on :1 (use X
> -xf86config /etc/X11/$some_XF86Config)
> - Change to VT1 (chvt 1)
> - Make sure that "dummydriver" is loaded
> - Sync your disks (can't hurt heh)
> - Enter S3 (echo -n mem >/sys/power/state)
> - Hit the power button to resume
> - Run boot-vga-bios (if you don't, the machine will freeze during the
> next step)
> - Just ignore the segfault it is causing
> - Change to the running *vesa* X11 screen (eg: chvt 8)
> - The vesa screen will crash and throw you back to VT1 - that's no
> problem at all!
> - The crashing vesa session revives your Monitor :)
> - Change to the radeon X11 screen to re-init AGP (this is a *must*)
> - Done !
> - Repeat from step 2 ;)