Dell D820 quirks

Jürg Billeter j at bitron.ch
Wed Oct 31 10:14:00 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 18:05 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2007, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > On Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2007, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 20:45 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > > > On Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2007, Mads Villadsen wrote:
> > > > > The quirks that make it work for me now are:
> > > > >
> > > > >         <match key="system.hardware.product" contains="D820">
> > > > >           <merge key="power_management.quirk.dpms_on"
> > > > > type="bool">true</merge>
> > > > >           <merge key="power_management.quirk.vbemode_restore"
> > > > > type="bool">true</merge>
> > > > >         </match>
> > > >
> > > > Could you please check if it also work with (which was reported for
> > > > s2ram):
> > > >
> > > >   <merge key="power_management.quirk.vbe_post" type="bool">true</merge>
> > > >   <merge key="power_management.quirk.vbemode_restore"
> > > > type="bool">true</merge>
> > >
> > > This breaks suspend (to ram) here with intel video, at least on x86_64,
> > > can't test on x86 right now.
> > >
> > > It works fine with only that line on x86 and x86_64
> > > <merge key="power_management.quirk.vbestate_restore"
> > > type="bool">true</merge>
> > >
> > > That's with xf86-video-intel 2.1.1 and xorg-server 1.4.0, it used to be
> > > something else with earlier versions. Maybe that issue will finally be
> > > gone for good if/when suspend/resume support is added to the kernel drm
> > > module.
> >
> > I tested now a Dell D820 with biosversion A05 and intel 2.1.1 on x86_64 and
> > it work also with vbe_post+vbemode_restore (which should be prefered before
> > vbestate_restore if both work) from X and init=/bin/bash. But if for you
> > only vbestate_restor work, we can add this quirk.
> 
> Btw. do you really need the dpms_on quirk? 

No, I'm only using vbestate_restore quirk now, no other quirks, does
that work for you, too? There still seem to be issues, at least after
enabling the additional VGA output via xrandr but vbestate_restore is as
good as it gets, as far as I can tell.

Jürg



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