Re: Woody: xfree86 hangs thinkpad on suspend

[star@starshine.org (Heather Stern)]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:41:05PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just upgraded to woody. All is fine on my Thinkpad 560E except if the machine suspends with xfree86 on the active console, it just hangs. Seems to also happen if I hit Fn-F7 (CRT-LCD) switch
> 
> Any solutions?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Mark

I cannot guarantee this will work, but... try a framebuffer kernel.

I had to deal with a machine which correctly behaved only when the
also-mentioned "chvt 1" trick worked.  (You change to a text console,
then when you waken, the hardware videomode restore behaves correctly.)
Actually, I whipped up a script to feed apm that would wait on the resume 
and chvt 7 again, so it felt like with a pause, we came back.

But when that system (ASUS family) was given a framebuffer kernel the
hack was no longer needed.

I have a 560E myself but it's not a debian box, so I can't test the 
answer.


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