[Pm-utils] Re: Video adapter resuming

[Stefan Seyfried]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:00:48PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 00:01 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 
> > What do you think?
> 
>         <match key="smbios.system.product" contains="D600">
>           <merge key="power_management.quirk.vbe_post" type="bool">true</merge>
>           <merge key="power_management.quirk.vbe_save" type="bool">true</merge>
>           <merge key="power_management.quirk.no_fb" type="bool">true</merge>
>         </match>
> 
> So what does no_fb do?

It means "machine must not use framebuffer or it will hang during resume".
Happens often with Radeons, these machines work fine, but only with VGA
console. vga16fb might also work, but i was too lazy to really code this
distinction into the s2ram whitelist.
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Stefan Seyfried
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