Re: benh 2.4.6 kernel

[gtgj@pacbell.net (Gregorio Gervasio Jr.)]

>>>>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:52:46 -0400, Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu> said:

[ TiPB sleep on 2.4.6 kernel ]

c> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
>> Could one of you quickly test if the problem still happen with my
>> current rsync ? I merged some fixes from recent bk _2_4_devel that
>> may or may not help.

c> Yep, rsync as of about 20 minutes ago, with Altivec support enabled,
c> sleeps just fine for me.  Thanks!

        Thanks, too.  I did notice one small problem that seems to be
new in this kernel.  The TiPB display doesn't shut off completely
while sleeping. I guess one way to describe it is that it behaves as
if the screen is not blank.  The backlight is off so it's only
noticeable eg. when there's a bright window on a dark desktop.
Eventually, after sleeping for some time (hours), the screen sort of
"decays" to a bunch of random vertical stripes.  What's a little
disconcerting is that there's a faint trace of the vertical stripes
that remain after coming back from sleep.  This is only noticeable
when showing something like a solid grey50 background.  Fortunately,
this goes away after the display is shut off for ~20 minutes either by
powering down or by sleeping with an older kernel.

        Sorry for the non-technical description, but has anyone else
noticed this?

Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
gtgj@pacbell.net