Video PM Methods

[Stefan Seyfried]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:52:37AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:46:18PM +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> 
> > With the DELLs (D600, D610, D800, D810) i did not get this far. The machine
> > just booted instead of resuming. It never got back into the kernel, it
> > apparently decided to boot instead of resume when still inside the BIOS.
> 
> Ah, the other thing I tried was using vbetool to set the graphics back 
> to text mode before suspending. Does that help at all?

I need to try this. You mean something like that?:

X=`vbeool vbemode get`
vbetool vgamode
echo mem > /sys/power/state
vbetool post
vbetool vbemode set $X

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