Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:42:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@cs.unm.edu> To: Gary Rafe <grafe@lab12.ie.pitt.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: APM suspend/resume in X11 ? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910261640490.1708-100000@nobby.cs.unm.edu> In-Reply-To: <199910260653.CAA07163@lab12.ie.pitt.edu>
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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Gary Rafe wrote: > I recently picked up a Toshiba 4030CDT and promptly got 3.3R/PAO > installed & running on it. > > After some teeth gnashing, I found that APM required "options VM86" > in the kernel for it to resume properly at the sysconsole > (otherwise, the system wakes up & promptly reboots). > Why is that ? > > Then when I tried a suspend/resume cycle from an X11 desktop subsequently, > the LCD failed to come on properly, showing instead a somewhat > disturbing random pattern of blotching; > toggling FnF5 didn't help -- a hard reset was necessary. > > Can anyone offer an insight or two as to potential conflicts > and interactions b/n APM and X11 (SVGA server) ? > I'd hate to damage this nice TFT display trying to get suspend/resume > working while running an X server. I don't have an answer for this, I wish I did. I see the same behavior on my Dell Lattitude. My solution so far has been to switch to a non-X11 virtual terminal and then suspend the machine. Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ Life is a movie, write your own ending - J. Henson, et al. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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