[Openchrome-users] problem with resume after suspend to ram with epia SP8000

[Thomas Hellström]

Hi!

druyts pascal wrote:

> I tried suspend to ram (S3) on the epia SP8000 with the openchrome 
> driver (last svn version). When resuming, the graphic output is not 
> restored correctly, it shows no image but only vertical color lines. 
> Is this a bug or does the openchrome driver not support acpi suspend 
> and resume?
>
> I also tested the via driver. With that driver, suspend and resume is 
> working correctly. I am using the SP8000 as a frontend for MythTV and 
> the suspend/resume is very convenient. While suspended, the box 
> remains cool and it takes less than one second to be up and runing 
> again --- to be compared to more than 1 minute for the full boot 
> procedure.  With Mythtv, the only problem is that  after a 
> suspend/resume, it is as if the remote was plugged out and in again. 
> Therfore, lircd crashes and the remote does not work anymore after 
> resume. As a workaround, I restared the lircd and the frontend after 
> resuming. A better workaround I am working on is to use an 'lircd 
> proxy' that reads from a fifo and writes to the socket /dev/lircd. I 
> then start lircd to write on /dev/lircd1 and irw /dev/lircd1 > 
> fifo_file to feed the fifo with the output of the remote. Doing so, 
> after a suspend, only lircd has to be restarted and mythfrontend 
> continues to work with the remote. If someone is interested, I can 
> post the lircd_proxy and the corresponding scripts.
>
> Is it planned to support acpi in the openchrome driver or is it 
> already supported and did I miss something?
>
> Thank,
>
> Pascal
>
Pascal, have you read our TV-out docs?

/Thomas

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