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Date:      Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:34:59 -0500
From:      Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>
To:        Gustau Perez <gperez@entel.upc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [HEADSUP] amd64 suspend/resume code to be comitted
Message-ID:  <179b97fb0903240934k762b010n4e51e1a28c9e8a82@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49C905DE.1020402@entel.upc.edu>
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Gustau Perez <gperez@entel.upc.edu> wrote=
:
>
>>
>> For now, it seems X is required. The "switch-to-VTY-and-back-again"
>> solution works for me:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/laptop/power-management.html
>>
>> In my /etc/rc.suspend:
>>
>> ...
>> /usr/sbin/vidcontrol -s 1 < /dev/console
>> ...
>>
>> In my /etc/rc.resume:
>>
>> ...
>> /usr/sbin/vidcontrol -s 9 < /dev/console
>> ...
>>
>> I've also seen various posts in forums and on mailing lists
>> about using the "vbetool" program (in ports), but I haven't messed
>> with it myself.
>>
>> See here for more detail on this issue (under "Low Priority Tasks"):
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/projects/acpi/#todo-list
>>
>> -Brandon
>>
>
> =A0Thank you, =A0I'll try it at home (leaving work in a few second ;)) Ho=
wever,
> what I cannot understand is why if_bge is giving me problems, while I've
> seen some successful reports of people with the same hard (at least
> supported by the same driver).
>
> =A0Greets,
>
> =A0Gus
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Well, I just went through a suspend/resume cycle on my notebook
without the 'vidcontrol'
statements in my /etc/rc.* (from Xorg) and my display lit right up! I
guess I no longer
require the VTY switch to save the video state as I once did...

-Brandon



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