Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:12:02 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: ACPI Hibernate and Suspend Strange behavior 2.6.7/-mm1 |
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Hi!
> > > > And, if I would shine > > > > a bright light on the screen, I could make out text on it. In other > > > > words, the backlight was off but it was still displaying stuff. > > > > > > I cannot reproduce that (T41), but maybe I'm looking at the wrong angle or > > > your eyes are better. In any case I understand that this image is very > > > faint. > > > > > > I'm not sure whether this is actually part of the problem. The > > > liquid crystals might just keep their current orientation, or there might > > > be some residual charge in the driver circuit. Do you want to take your > > > display apart and check with a voltmeter? I dont't :-) > > > > If it is still there after half an hour, its certainly part of the problem. > > LCD crystals loose the orientation in seconds, IIRC. > > Pavel > > I found that on my T40, if I am using the radeonfb built into the kernel > I cannot see a ghost image, but if I use VESA or vga=normal, I can see a > ghost in S3.
Well, you can't really expect to run without driver for hardware (VESA or vga=normal) and still get hardware powersaved correctly.
Pavel
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