Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 00:21:45 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>, "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: Ben Lovett <blovett@bsdguru.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8k and ATI Rage Mobility 128 Message-ID: <074c65521050912FE6@Mail6.nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1010551727.81863.4.camel@aviion.alfred.cx> References: <20020105190148.A7553@bsdguru.com> <1010545933.2595.3.camel@vpn6.ece.cmu.edu> <1010551727.81863.4.camel@aviion.alfred.cx>
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On Tuesday 08 January 2002 11:48 pm, Andrew Reid wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 14:42, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> > Oh, I can suspend, and I can resume. Sometimes even 2-3 times before
> > something locks up during the resume. But if I suspend while X is
> > running then I lose the ability to switch to a text session; the screen
> > stays in 1600x1200 graphics, changes to strange colors, and gradually
> > "fades" to either white or black.
>
> Yes! I get that too my Toshiba Portege 3110CT. Strangely, even if I
> switch to console and then suspend, X still spits. You have to give X
> the three-fingered salute and start it up again.
>
> I had exactly the same problem under Linux when I had an NEC Versa.
> Funnily enough, the NEC had a ATI VGA card, too. When I upgraded from
> RedHat 6.2 -> 7.0, the problem vanished.
>
> Which version of X are you using? It strikes me as odd that the problem
> went away in RedHat 7.0, where I'd have been running XFree86 4.x. I
> might try upgrading X and see what the results are.
>
> Can anyone comment on whether this is a known bug (and whether or not it
> has a fix)?
I have an i8k with ATI and I can suspend and resume to my heart's content
with only the odd top-fringing that the other user mentioned. I usualy fix
it by just waving a window around. (That is, I wipe the top of the screen
with a window I'm dragging and dropping--all I have to do is force it to
refresh.
Of course I don't usually suspend dozens of times per session, but I've never
seen any odd behavior connected with it. I'm running XFree86 4.x and
4.5-PRERELEASE at this point, but it was also find under 4.4-STABLE. I
previously had an i7500 with ATA, and it would suspend once just fine but
lock up on coming back from the second suspend quite consistently, under both
Linux and FreeBSD, as I recall, and definately under X 4 and FreeBSD
4.3-STABLE. It got stolen, though and when I replaced it with an i8k, it was
fine (of course the O/S also jumped up to 4.4 from 4.3, but I suspect it was
the hardware upgrade that was relavent).
>
> - andrew
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