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Date:      Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:07:30 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [HEADSUP] amd64 suspend/resume code to be comitted
Message-ID:  <1238000850.1828.12.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 10:21 -0500, Brandon Gooch wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> wro=
te:
> > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 18:31 -0500, Brandon Gooch wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>=
 wrote:
> >> > Brandon Gooch wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> wro=
te:
> >> >>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> On Monday 23 March 2009 05:16 pm, Brandon Gooch wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> The committed version is working well, I am suspending and resumi=
ng
> >> >>>> on my Lenovo X300. Thanks for your work on this, it is one of the
> >> >>>> major things I needed to work so I could run FreeBSD primarily on
> >> >>>> my notebook.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>
> >> >> I just finished a kernel build and it seems as though your
> >> >> recent commits have fixed the clock (at least for me)!
> >> >>
> >> >> I feel sorry for all the i386 folks on ACPI notebooks...
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks!
> >> >>
> >> >> -Brandon
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Picking a semi-random message here..
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for your work on this!  In the past (months ago) I tried the =
patch
> >> > set which didn't work, but the code in -current lets me suspend and =
resume
> >> > successfully on my Dell Latitude E6500 (acpiconf -s 3)!  I think thi=
s is a
> >> > first for me, of all the laptops I've had, none have ever been able =
to
> >> > suspend and resume in a successful or useful way, and I've been jeal=
ous of
> >> > the Thinkpad users that could claim otherwise.  I could suspend and =
resume
> >> > fine while in the console, then I ran startx and the suspend and res=
ume
> >> > worked while I was in X with intel graphics, however my system was s=
low
> >> > after that resume.  I didn't spend much time looking at it since I w=
as at
> >> > work, and I didn't see any obvious reasons for the slowness (cpu fre=
quency
> >> > was fine, cx states were C2 or lower (C1), top showed mostly idle, n=
o
> >> > evidence of an IRQ storm) yet processes ran fairly sluggish (not the=
 mouse
> >> > or typing though).  I didn't go back to console, I just shut down wi=
thout
> >> > trying any other situations yet.
> >> >
> >> > A tip I want to note for any users who may not have success with the=
ir
> >> > screen on resume:  In the past it seemed to help me to have a power-=
on
> >> > password set in my BIOS since the BIOS will turn on the screen on re=
sume to
> >> > ask me for my password.  I don't know if it is still helping me, but=
 I've
> >> > seen in the past where it has.
> >> > _______________________________________________
> >> > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list
> >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
> >> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebs=
d.org"
> >> >
> >>
> >> The sluggish response in X on Intel video has been an issue the past
> >> couple of days, triggered by suspend/resume or simply switching to VTY
> >> and back.
> >
> > I just committed code that should fix this...
> >
> > robert.
> >
> >> See this thread:
> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-March/004968.h=
tml
> >>
> >> Firefox is unusable, but xterms are still usable. I have to reboot to
> >> get back to "normal"
> >>
> >> -Brandon
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list
> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
> >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.=
org"
> > --
> > Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
> > FreeBSD
> >
>=20
> It seems to have helped -- slightly. Firefox is still too laggy when
> interacting with interface elements (scrollbar, toolbars, menus), and
> typing within HTML textboxes. XTerm, xpdf, xcalc, etc are still OK to
> use, perhaps because they're not as graphically intensive :)
>=20
> Also, it seems to have broken the suspend/resume. The machine does
> wake up, but X is no longer there (I'm at the VTY from which I started
> X) and I can't switch to another VTY. The machine still "works" for a
> period, but attempts to switch VTY or enter commands from the keyboard
> eventually lock it up, resulting in a continuous beep tone and
> requiring a hard power-off (holding down the power button).

Ok, let me see if I can get this i915 to suspend with / on a usb
disk.... ;(

robert.

> -Brandon
--=20
Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD

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