From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Mar 31 9:38:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.93.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1FA2155E8 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:38:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA02485; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:33:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:33:44 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Robert Withrow Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Closing laptop lid confuses X In-Reply-To: <199903252329.SAA25764@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Robert Withrow wrote: > On my Gateway Solo 9100 (with a trident chipset), running PAO 2.2.8, > when I close the lid and re-open it, the X11 display (XF86 3.3.3) > has disappeared. I've tried: > > - Switching VTs > - Building the kernel with the SYSCONS_VTY_RESUME option > - Killing and re-starting XDM > > Only the last option fixes the screen. > > If I am at the X11 vty, switching to standby mode doesn't cause > screen problems but suspending does. If I'm at a normal vty, > I can do either and X11 is fine when I switch back to the X11 vty. > > Anyone know of a fix? If not, should I go to the XFree people? Is > there an XFree-mobile list? I have a similar problem using XiG on an IBM 560E with the Trident chipset. Whenever the notebook suspends, if X is the active VT, then the display does not wake up again (although everything else is fine). If I switch to a VT after waking up and resuspend, it remembers to power up the display. I'm not sure if this is a bug in APM, or in the X server. This is actually much worse when the notebook isn't plugged in--if it's running off battery, and suspended while X was active, then I have to hard boot the machine. VTs work fine in either case. Since XFree86 provides extremely poor support for the Trident chipset (no 800x600xdecentnumberofcolors), I haven't tried XFree86 much. I'd really prefer to, as AccelX has a number of bugs in its X protocols support resulting in the X server crashing a bit too often for my liking (especially when I run KDE or xfig). XiG has also disclaimed any support for recent versions of FreeBSD, at least last time I contacted their technical support. Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message