Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:51:13 +0100 | From | Stefan Seyfried <> | Subject | Re: broken suspend in .2.6.25-rc3 on T61p (was Re: new regression in 2.6.25-rc3: no keyboard/lid acpi events on thinkpad T61p) |
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Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, 27 of February 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:56:41PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: >> >>> Seems like pm-utils is just a thin wrapper around s2ram, at least in >>> version debian ships. It does not seem to have its own whitelist. >> That's a Debian patch.
Yes, the current openSUSE basically uses the same setup, but this will change in the future.
>>> ...so it is ready to use s2ram, but will fall back to >>> echo. Unfortunately, that will mean no video resume on _many_ >>> machines. >> See /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video . >> >>> Pretty please, can we get s2ram for Fedora, so that video is restored >>> there? >> Stefan told us at FOSDEM that s2ram was being deprecated in OpenSuse, so >> I don't think this is the way to go. > > Well, is that really correct? Stefan??
Not quite :-)
> He probably meant that the s2ram _whitelist_ is going to be deprecated, which > didn't mean s2ram altogether.
Exactly.
> s2ram is pretty useful anyway, as it combines many mechanisms that allow us to > bring the video back to life from the user land, so you can use one binary > instead of a bunch of different programs with different command lines etc.
That's what i like about it and the part i want to keep: do all the workarounds in one place, ideally with locked VTs and maybe mlock()ed, but get the workaround options from HAL.
I also had the impression that i had said this quite clearly, but the talk was short, so the "data compression" of the information might not have been lossless :-)
Hope this helps to clear up the confusion. -- Stefan Seyfried R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out."
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