Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | | Subject | Re: Weird suspend/resume problem on HP nx6325 w/ openSUSE 11.2 w/ -rc8 | | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:04:15 +0100 |
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On Sunday 22 November 2009, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm not really sure where this should be reported, but here it goes. > > > > After installing openSUSE 11.2 on my testbed nx6325 I noticed that resume > > (from suspend to RAM) stopped working on it. Apparently, it hanged while > > switching from the console back to X and the box remained completely > > unresponsive after that (it didn't even react to the magic sysrq). However, > > it used to work just fine with -rc7 and openSUSE 11.1, so I figured the problem > > was related to the new X driver, which is radeon module version 6.12.4 (xorg > > server 1.6.5). > > > > So, I started to investigate and found that after a suspend from a framebuffer > > console, the resume had always worked. However, when I switched from X to the > > framebuffer console, suspended, resumed and switched back to X, the box hanged > > immediately just like during resume after a suspend from under X. [There also > > were some problems when switching from X to the framebuffer console and back > > which seemd to be independent of suspend/resume (in short, the screen stays > > black after a switch from the framebuffer console to X and you need to kill X > > to fix this).] > > You are using radeonfb on it? or vesafb?
vesafb
> first test is to try without either of those installed.
That doesn't change the behavior AFAICS.
> From memory though that machines an Xpress 200M
Yes, it has this one.
> which is the the worst graphics card for use with open drivers and has > always caused no-end of pain.
Too bad. :-(
> Its also mostly undocumented when it comes to errata and workarounds.
Well, so I guess this is a hardware errata.
Still, it worked with the older X, so I wonder if I can make the new X work like the old one?
Best, Rafael
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