Re: [ACPI] Resum power drain, T42p final conclusion!

[Stefan S. <se...@gm...>]

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:31:04PM +0200, Nils Faerber wrote:
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> Hi!
> I finally tested everything possible and double/triple checked the
> scripts and it came down to the very simple solution:
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> 	vbetool is evil is evil is evil

not what i have been telling, but what i have been told ;-)

> I already had vbetool savestate disabled but there was still a call to
> vbetool dpms in the scripts.
> After removing that too I am back to normal again, i.e. I use s3_bios
> option and nothing else to get video back (BTW: no framebuffer console,
> plain VGA text).

If you use vesafb, you probably need "s3_bios,s3_mode" to get the video
mode restored.

> Just to be very sure I did
> 	ln -sf /bin/true /usr/sbin/vbetool
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> 
> So, many thanks for the good ideas an advice!

Just to clarify: what vbetool calls were executed (and when: suspend?
resume? both?) and what did they cause?

And did the same happen with swsusp? If yes, which mode was set in 
/sys/power/disk (platform or shutdown)? Was vbetool also called on
swsusp?
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Stefan Seyfried