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Subject:    Re: [linux-laptop] apm and X question
From:       Aurelio =?iso-8859-1?q?S=E1nchez?= <fae7901 () yahoo ! es>
Date:       2002-04-16 2:18:21
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Monday15 Abr 2002 09:06, you wrote as  Alan Schmitt:
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed a Mandrake 8.2 on a evo n600c compaq laptop, and I
> have two problems with apm. I tried looking in the archives of some
> mailing lists, but could not find solutions for them.
>
> The problems are:
> - when I suspend while running X, the screen gets completely garbaged
>   (there are many pixels, even though the laptop is suspended, and there
>   is a weird moving pattern at first, as if the screen wasn't refreshed
>   anymore and was somehow "decaying" (sorry for the description, I don't
>   really know how to explain it ...)). When I resume the laptop, I get
>   back the picture before the suspend, but also a bit garbaged. The
>   keyboard and external mouse (usb) do not work anymore, but the
>   internal mouse can still move (clicking doesn't do anything though). I
>   do not use a sw cursor, so that might explain this last bit. I can
>   log on the machine from another one, and I see that X is using 100 %
>   cpu. Suspending on a virtual console works (the only problem is that I
>   need to refresh the screen, and the "scroll lock" gets on). I tried to
>   switch to a virtual console before suspending, and it works fine ...
>   until I go back to X (alt-f7) then I get stuck there, as before.
>.../...
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Alan
>

Very similar problem with my Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo (Silicon Motion 3DEM 8MB 
video, XFree86 4.0.3 first and 4.1.0 now, running Red Hat 7.1 with 2.4.9 
kernel, self compiled from source code installed by Red Hat rpm). Often is 
seen a blue pixelation on some zone in the screen.

I'd just thrown away the cloth on this matter, deactivating suspend mode. 
Only 
use the (how is said in English?....) ah!, screensaver.

GPM, on console, just works fine with the suspend (only video), and restores 
it well, only some dropout from hard disk, but without consequences.

Is normal the use of suspend (and hibernation) feature on Linux, that with 
propietary drivers often fails under Windows?

-- 
Greetings,

Aurelio Sánchez
fae7901@yahoo.es
Cartagena, Spain


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