[Pm-utils] Problems with 98smart-kernel-video and intel graphics chipsets

[Victor Lowther]

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 21:03 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got a bug report against pm-utils-1.1.2.3 [1], where a user complained
>  about failing suspend/resume on his DELL X200 (which uses the i915 driver).
> Apparently he requires quirk-vbe-post and quirk-vbemode-restore, which
> is filtered out by 98smart-kernel-video though.

I suspected that those quirks might still be necessary after having to
accept the s3-bios and s3-mode quirks for the Intel kernel modesetting
driver, but I didn't have anything to test that suspicion against.

> Can someone with more knowledge about intel hardware and its kernel
> modesetting driver please comment on the current status of this driver
> with regard to quirk handling and which one should be applied or
> filtered out.

We will probably have to annoy the driver developers directly.

I suspect that the Intel driver will ultimatly still require the s3 and
the vbe post, state, and mode quirks.

> As it seems the current logic in 98smart-kernel-video is not
> sophisticated enough.

98smart-kernel-video even says so. :)

> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499442
> email message attachment (Re: Bug#499442: pm-utils: Dell X200 suspend
> on Linux 2.6.26.eml)
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Karl Chen <quarl at cs.berkeley.edu>
> > To: Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>
> > Cc: 499442 at bugs.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Bug#499442: pm-utils: Dell X200 suspend on Linux 2.6.26
> > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:42:43 -0700
> > 
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Victor Lowther
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